by Yael Fischman
December 9, 2024
There is a saying that translates into,
"Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness."
I think of this saying when Hanukkah rolls around, a...
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by Yael Fischman
March 1, 2024
On Purim, we read about the saving of the Jewish people by Esther the Queen of Persia, who was a hidden Jew. Haman, the evil grand vizier, had d...
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by Yael Fischman
March 14, 2023
The Torah readings Vayakhel and Pekudey are often chanted on the same Shabbat, and the Haftarah is usually the one which echoes many of the details...
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by Yael Fischman
August 4, 2022
Forty-six years ago, a young woman stood at the ammud/lectern to give her D'var Torah and chant her Haftarah at her Bat Mitzvah. Shaking like a leaf in a storm, the nervous twelve year old version of myself began her prepared remarks...
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There is a saying that translates into, "Better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." I think of this saying when Hanukkah rolls around, a...
On Purim, we read about the saving of the Jewish people by Esther the Queen of Persia, who was a hidden Jew. Haman, the evil grand vizier, had d...
The Torah readings Vayakhel and Pekudey are often chanted on the same Shabbat, and the Haftarah is usually the one which echoes many of the details...
Forty-six years ago, a young woman stood at the ammud/lectern to give her D'var Torah and chant her Haftarah at her Bat Mitzvah. Shaking like a leaf in a storm, the nervous twelve year old version of myself began her prepared remarks...
