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Parshat Naso Numbers 4:21-7:89 At the end of this week’s Torah portion, Naso, in the book of Numbers, Moses finishes assembling the Tabernacle.  The tribes… Read More »Collaboration is the way

Tonight we kindle the Festival candles for Shavuot.  The last of the three major festivals for 5770.  We will celebrate the first harvest, the bikkurim… Read More »Shavuot Reflections

It is almost time-are You ready? Ready to be at Sinai once again? Shavuot begins Tuesday night. This is the time we Jews celebrate, matan torahteinu,… Read More »It is almost time-Are you ready?

Today is Ordination Sunday for the Los Angeles campus of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.  A new crop of rabbis will be ordained.  After… Read More »A New Crop

Oil and vinegar don’t mix. The sour faces on the Oil executives that appeared before Congress this week told a story.  It is not enough… Read More »Oil and Vinegar and Water Don’t Mix

THIS IS A WHALE OF A TALE!   But a sad comment on climate warming…are we doing our jobs as stewards of our planet/the Garden of… Read More »Scientists stunned as grey whale sighted off Israel

Parshat Bemidbar Numbers 1:1 – 4:20 We begin a new book of the Torah with this week’s portion, Bemidbar. We begin the book of Numbers… Read More »Count Down in the Wilderness

When is a cross not a Christian symbol?  Evidently when it comes before the Supreme Court.  On April 28 the United States Supreme Court in… Read More »When is a cross not a Christian symbol?

My cousin David is ours.  He is our family genealogist! He has traced the Eger family way back to Romania! Who is your family genealogist? … Read More »Who’s on Your Family Tree