Escaping the Wilderness
It sometimes feels as if we are all b’midbar, in the wilderness.
BTBJ Welcomes New (But Familiar) Leaders
It’s a new era at Beth Tikvah-B’nai Jeshurun in Erdenheim.
In a May 17 email, the synagogue announced the hiring of a new senior rabbi...
Former Neo-Nazi Converting to Judaism
Fred Cook, by his own admission, is a man in search of an identity.
From his teenage years through his early 30s, he filled that...
Orthodox Synagogue Reaches Century Mark
Congregation B’nai Israel Ohev Zedek in Philadelphia turned 100 on May 22.
Yet the Orthodox synagogue is “a very young shul now,” said Michael Bohm,...
The Complicated Matter of Reward and Punishment
The message of this week’s Torah portion, B’chukotai, is straightforward.
Shir Ami a Hub for Reform Jewish Life
When it opened in 1999, Shir Ami’s community mikveh became just the second of its kind at a Reform synagogue in the United States.
Today...
Main Line Rabbi David Straus Retires After 24 Years
Eric Settle, a Main Line Reform Temple member since 1973 and the synagogue’s president from 2014 to 2016, described Rabbi David Straus’ mindset as...
A Place of Choosing
This week’s parsha, Behar, places the Israelites, renewed from their freedom from Egyptian enslavement, at Mount Sinai.
Different Sides, Same Circle
When you are 5½-years-old, your half-birthday is a big event.
B’nai Jacob Brings Different Jews Together
Congregation B’nai Jacob is a Conservative synagogue. But it is not just open to Conservative Jews.
As the only synagogue in Phoenixville, it welcomes Jews...