By Janine Jankovitz Pastor Dear Congregants, In honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. I want to share with you the experience I had marching for justice this past Monday in Philadelphia in honor of Dr. King’s legacy. On Monday I joined hundreds of people in Philadelphia for the “March for a Better America” march […]
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A ‘BISSEL’ OF TORAH: VAYECHI (GENESIS 44:28-50:26) By Joy Scott, Am Haskalah Congregant
In last week’s Torah Parsha (VAYIGASH), Joseph became overwhelmed with emotion, when he learned that his father, Jacob was still alive. He revealed his identity to his eleven brothers; and, urged them to bring his father and all of their wives and children to Egypt. The brothers were both stunned and elated. They gleefully returned […]
A ‘BISSEL’ OF TORAH: VAYIGASH (GENESIS 44:18-47:27) By Joy Scott Am Haskalah Congregant
The major theme of the book of Genesis is dysfunctional family dynamics and sibling rivalry, which tend to repeat themselves, generation after generation. Adam and Eve never interacted with their two sons; Cain killed his brother Abel; Ishmael mocked his brother Isaac, and was forced from his home at the age of sixteen; Jacob stole […]
If Not Now, When?
By Angela Zanelli, friend of Am Haskalah For the last few years, I have had the pleasure of writing a Chanukah article for a magazine. I like to focus on the concept of light and different ways that we can bring more light into the world, both literal and symbolic. Lighting candles, smiling at a […]
A ‘BISSEL’ OF TORAH: VAYEISHEV (GENESIS 37:1-40:23)
By Joy Scott, Am Haskalah Congregant Pulitzer Prize winning book for 2016: “Joseph and His Multi-colored Coat”….A single father with twelve sons and one daughter, born to four different women (all now deceased); a dysfunctional family; partiality; resentment; hatred; deceit; a scenario comparable to the popular television show, ‘Real housewives of Egypt’; and, crimes and […]