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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. […]
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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 […]
A Bisl Torah — Pocket Torah
February 18th, 2021 Awake Goy In rabbinical school, common advice from mentors included, “Always have a piece of pocket Torah.” Meaning, wherever you find yourself, be ready to share a Torah lesson, story, teaching or message. In a world with so much beauty, tragedy, hope and loss, there should always be a piece of Torah to share. And yet, visually, […]
A Bisl Torah — Let Love In
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy In the secular world, this weekend brings in a holiday known for love. Cards exchanged, chocolates consumed, cheesy movies watched. It’s a time in which we show affection for those we care about. But if we are being honest, it is also a time in which we hope to feel honored, valued, and seen. How […]
Can I Have My Cow Back? — A poem for Torah Portion Mishpatim
February 12th, 2021 Awake Goy After Exodus 22:4-26 Some of our best laws are here – If a fire goes forth and finds thorns… …then congratulate the fire forliving above its expectations andfinding what it needs. If a man gives his neighbor a donkeyfor safekeeping… I’ve been dreaming of receivingdonkeys with all the trust implied.I’ve been imagining a safe donkey-shelterin […]
The Wisdom of In-Laws – a poem for Torah Portion Yitro
February 5th, 2021 Awake Goy Moses obeyed his father in law,and he did all that he said.Exodus 18:24 When I first met my father-in-lawnaturally, he was suspicious.Who was this man, who was not him?Who had not supplied his daughterwith a lifetime of foreign dollsor a baby grand piano, or music lessonsor decades of food and shelter?Who had flown across the […]
A Bisl Torah — A Time for Laughter
February 5th, 2021 Awake Goy When is the last time you laughed? Not a quick smile, but the kind of deep belly laugh that comes out of nowhere. That kind of laugh. In a few weeks we welcome the Hebrew month of Adar in which we are told “one increases rejoicing.” The holiday of Purim reminds us that everything is […]
The Biggest Things – A poem for Torah Portion Beshalach
January 29th, 2021 Awake Goy “and the waters were to them as a wallfrom their right and from their left.”Exodus 14:22 I like to visit places that have the biggest things.If a city has a wall, or a tower or a building withan observation deck, if I can go up a funicularor there’s a trip to a mountain available whereI […]
Angela Merkel participates in historic Torah scroll writing ceremony
January 28th, 2021 Awake Goy Germany’s Chancellor Angela Merkel observed the finishing of a refurbished Torah scroll in an event marking Holocaust Remembrance Day in Berlin on Wednesday. The 18th century Sulzbacher Torah, which survived the National Socialist Kristallnacht pogrom in 1938 and lay unnoticed for decades in a cabinet in a synagogue in Amberg, Bavaria, was brought back to […]
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No Comments »A Bisl Torah — Are You There, God?
January 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Across the globe, it feels as if we are treading water. Part of us submerged, hearing more about who has Covid and the staggering consequences of the disease. And yet, part of us is out of the water, face towards the sun, seeing more people receive the vaccine, a symbol of hope that floating on […]
Final Arrangements – A poem for Torah Portion Vayechi
January 1st, 2021 Awake Goy And Israel said to Joseph, “Behold, I am going to die……And I have given you one portion over your brothers…”Genesis 48:21-22 Someone I know once called to makefuneral arrangements for his mother whohadn’t died yet. The doctors made it clear the outcomewas inevitable, but, maybe let the eyes closeone last time before you make the […]
Torah scroll dedicated in UAE, documented in new film
December 20th, 2020 Awake Goy A documentary about a Torah scroll that was dedicated in 2019 to the memory of United Arab Emirates founding father, the late Sheikh Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, and presented to his son, His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi will debut early next year.The film Amen-Amen-Amen is a […]
Rosner’s Torah Talk: Miketz with Blair Nosanwisch
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Rosner’s Torah Talk for Hanukkah with Etienne Kerber
December 13th, 2020 Awake Goy Our guest for Hanukkah is Etienne Kerber, from the Leo beck college in London. On Chanukah we celebrate the re–dedication of the Temple by the Maccabees. This is the Temple that had been defiled by the Greeks. The Chanukah Torah reading discusses the dedication of the desert Tabernacle.The leaders of the twelve tribes of Israel each bring their […]
LA Jewish Film Festival Free Event: Ed Asner Narrates “The Tattooed Torah”
December 3rd, 2020 Awake Goy Based on the children’s book of the same name by Marvell Ginsburg and narrated by Ed Asner, “The Tattooed Torah” is a beautifully animated short film that tells the true story of a small torah that Courtesy YIVO Institute for Jewish Research that was confiscated by the Nazis in Czechoslovakia but survived the Holocaust. On […]
From Darkness to Wisdom — Thoughts on Torah Portion Vayeitzei 2020
November 28th, 2020 Awake Goy I can imagine Jacob justifiably bemoaning his fate as he trudges toward Paddam Aram. Jacob was the one, the Bible tells us, who was the dweller in tents. The Midrash explains that this does not mean that he dwelt in tents at the campsite, but rather studied in the tents of “Shem and Eber,” the […]
Rosner’s Torah Talk: Parsha Vayetze with Tzvia Rubens
November 27th, 2020 Awake Goy Tzvia Rubens, of Hebrew Union in Ohio, is our guest this week, and we discuss Parshat Vayetze which begins when Jacob leaves Canaan and journeys to Charan. On the way, he goes to sleep and dreams of a ladder connecting heaven and earth, with angels climbing and descending on it. In Haran, Jacob works for his uncle Laban, […]
Love Like Jacob – a poem for Torah portion Vateze
November 26th, 2020 Awake Goy So Jacob worked for Rachel seven years,but they appeared to him like a few daysbecause of his love for her. Genesis 29:20 I first knew about love when I wasthirteen years old, in junior high schoolwhich was kind to me in no other way. I don’t want to deceive youIt’s […]
Israeli police arrest two with 450-year-old Torah scroll pages
November 24th, 2020 Awake Goy Browse > Home / News / Israeli police arrest two with 450-year-old Torah scroll pages November 24, 2020 by Aryeh Savir – TPS Read on for article Israeli police arrested two suspects on Monday found to be in possession of 450-year-old Torah scrolls in their home in Yarka, a Druze town in northern Israel. The […]
Why Orthodox Jews believe studying Torah protects from COVID-19
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The Torah: Its History, Use, and Continued Purpose
August 15th, 2020 Awake Goy 
The name of the Torah has a complicated history. It has been thought to mean a multitude of things including “instruction”, “law”, and “teaching”. The Torah is often misunderstood to represent the Hebrew Bible, but in fact only actually covers the first five books, known as the Pentateuch, out of the total twenty-four. While some […]
Talmud Torah Quotes
August 12th, 2020 Awake Goy Talmud Torah Quotes Jewish Talmudic Quotes – Facts Are Facts From Acharya S7-26-9 Talmudic Quotes The decisions of the Talmud are words of the living God. Jehovah himself asks the opinions of earthly rabbis when there are difficult affairs in heaven. Rabbi Menachen, Comments for the Fifth Book Jehovah himself in […]
