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A Light at The End of The Tunnel: Shabbat Message by Kira Melamed-Vainberg

October 15, 2021
9:30 am

In this week’s Torah portion – Lech L’cha – G-d tells Abram (before he became Abraham) that he must leave all he knows behind and go forth to a new land, where he is promised a blessed future for him and his descendants. Abram and G-d make a covenant (brit), and he essentially takes a leap of faith to follow...

Losing Sleep: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Jessica Spitalnic Mates

October 8, 2021
11:07 am

I have forgotten how to sleep well recently. Years ago, when someone asked me why being Jewish mattered at all, I told them the fact that the Holocaust happened kept me up at night. I meant it metaphorically at the time, but today I literally can’t sleep. It seems author Dara Horn can’t sleep either, for the very same reason....

Flight of Awareness: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Dan Levin

October 1, 2021
1:32 pm

In the mid 1960’s, legendary president of Pan Am Juan Trippe met with executives of the Boeing company to begin design of a new airliner. This would be an airplane that could transport almost 500 passengers more than 5,000 miles. Thus the Boeing 747 was conceived. In order to build the largest commercial airliner ever conceived, thousands of engineers had to...

Take Your Time: Shabbat Message by Rabbi Dan Levin

September 24, 2021
2:57 pm

When I was about ten years old, I came across a book called Something For Joey. The story relates the extraordinary bond between John Cappelletti, an all-star running back at Penn State University, and his younger brother Joey, who was fighting childhood leukemia. The book shares the love that inspired John to win the Heisman trophy, and held the family...

Virtual event marks 75th anniversary of Nuremberg Trials’ conclusion

September 22, 2021
3:59 pm

Oct. 1 marks 75 years since the end of the Nuremberg Trials of the Nazis after World War II. As part of its Project Nuremberg virtual program, Temple Beth El of Boca Raton will mark the anniversary by partnering with American Friends of the Hebrew University to present “Keeping Alive the Lessons of the Nuremberg Trials” with University of London law...