Archive 2013

By Gerry SkolnikAs an unrepentant (if older and wiser) child of the sixties, I have always considered it one of the sacred tasks of parenting to insure that my children -- all four of them -- know and appreciate the music that shaped my journey into...

Dear Friends,Convention 2013 marks an important milestone in the history of the Rabbinical Assembly. Jan Kaufman, who has served as the Director of Special Projects since 1994, is retiring. We wish her ברכה and הצלחה as she begins this new chapter...

By Ed Feld, senior editor, Siddur Lev Shalem for Shabbat & Festivals Translating can be a dangerous business. The great English translator of the Bible, William Tyndale, whose work formed the basis for the King James Version, was martyred in...

By Elliot Salo SchoenbergLast week, I was privileged to attend the annual training course and spiritual retreat organized by the Jewish Welfare Board Jewish Chaplains Council and attended by 10 colleagues serving in the United States Armed Forces.

By Elliot Salo Schoenberg My father's yahrzeit is the week before Passover. He is gone now 26 years. He always led the seder wearing the same white and blue kippah. He loved eating boiled potatoes for karpas. He would read...

By Gerry Skolnik Every year, as we prepare to celebrate the festival of Passover, I find myself struggling with the same issue. More than any other Jewish holiday, Passover lends itself to “universalization.” The theme of “from enslavement to...