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Therefore, I said to the children of Israel:None of you shall eat bloodLeviticus 17:12 Rest assured, God, Adonai, Holy OneUnseen Savior, Invisible to the point ofwondering what sounds You makeor bath salts You use, as a vegetarian(and, I guess, by law as a Jew) no bloodwill pass through these lips, as I view itas sacred […]
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Blood, and Nudity and Moloch (Oh, My) — A poem for Torah Portion Acharei Mot-Kedoshim
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A Bisl Torah — Selectively Silent
April 23rd, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda I underestimate the value of silence. As a student, I used to think silence was a sign of weakness. If you don’t raise your hand, you clearly don’t know the answer. But years later I realize that just because you speak more or interrupt in a conversation, you are not necessarily any brighter than those […]
I Wouldn’t Get Used to This – a poem for Torah Portion Tazria-Metzora
April 16th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda If a man loses the hair on [the back of] his head,he is bald. He is clean.Leviticus 13:40 No one complains when babies are baldbut let a few decades go by and if the skinof our heads becomes visible, it becomes a thing. Industries have arisen to help us deal withthis affliction. Wigs, magic hair […]
A Bisl Torah — Happy Birthday to Israel
April 16th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda On Tuesday night, Sinai Temple made shakshuka with Danny Corsun and Zoey Corsun of Culinary Judaics Academy. The evening was a cooking celebration in honor of Israel’s birthday. Shakshuka is a well-known Middle Eastern dish, often served in Israeli homes and restaurants for breakfast or lunch. Peppers, tomatoes, harissa, za’atar, eggs and an assortment of […]
Using his immunity, Labor MK delivers Torah for women to read at Western Wall
April 13th, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda Freshman Labor party MK Gilad Kariv on Tuesday used his parliamentary immunity to bring a Torah scroll to the Western Wall plaza, where he handed it over to a group of women for use during their prayer service, in violation of policy at the holy site. Kariv’s actions drew condemnation from the Western Wall administration […]
It is hard to connect to the Torah as a trans Jew, but I’m trying anyway
April 2nd, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda This essay originally appeared on Alma, 70 Faces Media’s feminist Jewish culture site. Had you asked me 20 years ago, 10 years ago, even last year (truthfully, last month) if I’d ever quote the Torah in a piece I was writing, I probably would have (respectfully and nervously) laughed in your face. The Torah makes […]
Turkish police say they seized 2,000-year-old Torah scroll
April 1st, 2021 FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda News and Partnerships Life and Culture Columnists and Opinion Haaretz Heb and TheMarker Haaretz.com, the online English edition of Haaretz Newspaper in Israel, gives you breaking news, analyses and opinions about Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World. © Haaretz Daily Newspaper Ltd. All Rights Reserved Source Views: 0
400-year-old Torah ark fully restored by Vercelli Jewish community
March 21st, 2021 Awake Goy As the latest of a number of Jewish heritage projects coordinated by the Vercelli Jewish community in recent years, a 400-year-old wooden Aron Kodesh (Torah scroll ark) has been fully restored and will be installed in a prominent place in the city’s grand synagogue, the Jewish Heritage Europe website reported. The Moorish-style synagogue, built in the […]
Rosner’s Torah Talk: Vayikra with Rachel Posner
March 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Editor’s Picks Latest Articles Source Views: 0
The Triple Salting — A poem for Torah Portion Vayikra
March 19th, 2021 Awake Goy And you shall salt every one of your meal offering sacrificeswith salt, and you shall not omit the salt…Leviticus 2:13 If there’s one thing I’ve learned fromthe cooking competition shows of the world, it’sif you don’t season your food you will lose. This is ancient knowledge that comesfrom the book of Leviticus where the Lordexpresses […]
A Bisl Torah — Elijah and the Tooth Fairy
March 19th, 2021 Awake Goy Never leave your phone out. Obviously, this could be the beginning of many dilemmas, but mine isn’t what you might expect. The kids saw an open application, otherwise known as the Tooth Fairy App. It’s a great gadget. You take a picture of your sleeping child and superimpose a realistic sticker of the tooth fairy. […]
Light beyond the Shadows: The Legacy of the Czech Torah Scrolls
March 18th, 2021 Awake Goy March 18, 2021 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read on for article Book Review: Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen reviews Light beyond the Shadows: The Legacy of the Czech Torah Scrolls by Sheila Pallay and Julius Muller. When this book first arrived, I looked at it with a little trepidation. This looked like one of those nice coffee table […]
A Bisl Torah — Hide n’ Seek
March 11th, 2021 Awake Goy My daughter insisted that our family play hide n’ seek. I’m not a big fan of the game. Kids stealthily waiting to jump out at you, closets in shambles by the end of the game, and each child wanting multiple turns. When Annie requested hide n’ seek, I countered with Bananagrams. Unsurprisingly, 30 seconds later, […]
Deaf rabbi translates Torah into sign language
February 28th, 2021 Awake Goy LONDON (Jewish News) — Israel’s only deaf rabbi is giving a hand to the hard of hearing by translating the entire Torah into sign language. Speaking to the Jewish News from Rishon Lezion in Israel through a sign language interpreter, Rabbi Yehoshua Soudakoff admits that it’s a “big responsibility” to try to make Judaism “accessible […]
Punica Granatum — A poem for Torah Portion Tetzaveh
February 26th, 2021 Awake Goy And on its bottom hem you shall make pomegranatesExodus 28:33 In our home, which will, soonno longer be our home, we plantedBiblical fruits in all the available spaces. The pomegranate is the only onestill with us. The poor almond treefirst a feast for the possums – rarely allowing us a taste despiteits many blossoms, eventually […]
Get vaccinated now; the Torah commands it
February 26th, 2021 Awake Goy February 26, 2021 by Read on for article During my visits to coronavirus wards at hospitals across Israel, I encountered a most worrying statistic…writes Rabbi David Lau. Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Israel David Lau. Credit: Wikimedia Commons. All of the hospitalized were relatively young people who had not been vaccinated. A few minutes after […]
Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parshat Tetzaveh with Avi Hoffman
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A Bisl Torah — Strength in a Cookie
February 25th, 2021 Awake Goy We continued our annual tradition of baking hamantaschen. This year, the experience was a little different. Sinai Temple joined 75 other families on zoom, communally made dough and laughed through our baking questions. How much flour? How do you create the perfect triangle shape? How many minutes in the oven? But we also asked, “Why […]
Holland: Torah scroll, hidden from the Nazis, now returns to Jewish hands
February 20th, 2021 Awake Goy A Torah scroll that disappeared from a Dutch synagogue following the Nazi invasion into the Netherlands has been rediscovered 80 years later and returned to the Jewish community. The scroll, which appears to be intact and has been kept in excellent condition since World War II, belonged to a synagogue in the southern city of […]
My Expensive Tastes: An Origin Story — A poem for Torah Portion Terumah
February 19th, 2021 Awake Goy And you shall make a menorah of pure gold. Exodus 25:31 When the first thing we were asked to makerequired us to use solid gold, gold taken from our former captors, it explained allmy expensive tastes. My solid gold houseMy fat wallet My trees, bedazzled withjewel-encrusted fruit. The groceries we order fromthe solid gold […]
