by Eric C. Martienssen | Apr 18, 2025 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
This year the Holocaust Remembrance Day “Yom haShoah” falls on the sixth day after “Good Friday”, and the eighth day after Good Friday falls on the Shabbat “Shemini” [= the eighth day of inauguration].”Good” Friday...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 21, 2025 | Current Shabbat-Reading
SHABBAT MISHPATIM readings: Exodus 21:1 – 24:18 Tora study by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «We all demand that life be fair. And we all want justice. And the pursuit of justice is what parashat Mishpatim is all about. But...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Feb 3, 2025 | Current Themes
“Reunification will lead to Germany gaining more influence in Europe than Hitler ever had,” the political magazine DER SPIEGEL quotes from a conversation between French President Francois Mitterrand and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher on January...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Jan 24, 2025 | Current Shabbat-Reading
SHABBAT VA’ERA reading: Exodus 6:2- 8:35 Tora study by Rav Gedalia Meyer for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Beliefs: we cling to them like our lives depend upon them. But sometimes things happen that upend out beliefs, and leave us unsteady upon...
by Eric C. Martienssen | Dec 25, 2024 | Current Shabbat-Reading, Current Themes
Chanukah reading: Hallel, Numbers 7:1-29 Weekly Torah Study Miketz: Gen. 41:1 – 44:17 + Num. 7:24-35; Zech. 2:14 – 4,7 Temple Talk by Rav Yitzchak Reuven for The Temple Institute, Jerusalem, Israel: «Israel Waits for Trump! The story of Chanukah, of a...
