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March 2023 KoREH News

The Greatest Purim Mitzvah Is Empathy   As you’re reading this, Purim is nearly here. For many of us, the holiday of Purim holds a special place in our Jewish lives and in our memories. It is a holiday that takes a frightening premise (the near genocide of the Jews of Shushan) and reinvents it as a festival of merriment, revelry, and communal celebration. It’s one of the things I like best about this holiday, and an important piece of...Read more...

January 2023 KoREH News

The People Who Warm Your Heart   I have often been asked what it means to work as a rabbi. Most often, I think that outside of leading holidays, lifecycles, and religious ritual ceremonies, the work of being a rabbi is creating the connective tissue between people that builds and strengthens a community. Or, as the brilliant statesman, Robert F. Kennedy, once explained, “We must attempt to bring people back to the warmth of community,...Read more...

September 2022 KoREH News

The Wisdom of a New Start   Yose ben Yoezer used to say: let your house be a gathering space for the wise; sit in the very dust of their feet, and drink in their words with thirst. ~ Mishnah Avot 1:4   Over the past six years, one of my primary missions has been to build our religious school into the kind of community that brings together learners of all ages and interests, a place where curiosity is rewarded and wisdom...Read more...

July 2022 KoREH News

The Future’s So Bright…   A famous story is told about Rabbi Akiva, possibly the greatest sage and scholar of the Mishna. It is told that he had no formal education until age forty. One day, while walking, he came across a large rock with a hole worn through it. When he asked how the hole had been made, it was explained that the waters that dripped continually onto the rock had worn it down over the ages and eventually formed a crack...Read more...

May 2022 KoREH News

Spreading Learning Far and Wide Learning has always been fundamental to Jewish life and cultural expression. So much so that Jewish learning has been described as both “a tree of life” (Proverbs 3:18) and “like a warming fire” (Jeremiah 23:29), as something that nourishes and sustains us, and at the same time ignites our passions and fuels us forward.   In our own learning at our Kol Rinah Education Hub (KoREH), we have seen our...Read more...

March 2022 KoREH News

After a nice long winter break, extended a few weeks as we waited for COVID numbers to get better, KoREH is back in full swing! We are so grateful to our students and parents for masking up and helping keep everyone safe. We want to give a special shout out to our teachers. Through all of the ups and downs of the pandemic, and all of the rules to keep everyone healthy, our teachers have worked hard to ensure our students are learning and...Read more...

November 2021 KoREH News

This time of year, our tradition steeps us in tales of journeys and adventure, family and community, and, most critically, of spiritual self-discovery. From the moment we emerge from the High Holidays and start the cycle of Torah anew, we read each week the Torah tales of our ancestors going out into the world and discovering something new about themselves and the nature of their place in this universe. What’s more, is how incredibly those...Read more...

September 2021 KoREH News

Preparing for New Possibilities   What is the proper path for a person to walk down? Any path which, through its journey, brings honor to a person and earns them esteem from others. Mishnah Avot 2:1   When we think about a learning journey for our young people, we often imagine setting them on a path to move forward in their lives. We want to give them the skills to succeed, the knowledge to support their endeavors, the courage...Read more...

May 2021 KoREH News

Experiencing Our Learning Anew   “Don’t count the days; make the days count,” or so the saying goes. We are coming to the end of a huge communal counting in the Jewish calendar, the Omer, which enumerates seven weeks (49 total days) between the second night of Passover and the start of Shavuot. What fascinates me every year is how hard it is to say a couple of lines of blessing and count the day each evening. The words are simple,...Read more...

March 2021 KoREH News

Miracles In Our Own Time  Looking at the Jewish calendar often provides fascinating insights. Take a look at where we are right now, smack in the middle between Purim and Pesach (Passover). On the one hand, these holidays are incredibly distinct. Purim typically is a lively, joyful, and largely public gathering, full of music, ecstatic movement, comedy, and energy. Pesach, conversely, is largely focused on our homes and families, both the...Read more...
Sat, March 25 2023 3 Nisan 5783