Cooking Corner with Chef Danny Corsun
07/03/2017 01:44:20 PM
Summer is here and it's time for all you VBS grill masters to break out your oven...Read more...
WE'RE (STILL) NOT WORTHY
06/08/2017 12:36:53 PM
Our Torah follows a cycle of reading for the year. While we are currently in the book of Bamidbar or Numbers, we are shortly approaching the weekly parasha of Sh'lach Lecha. It's not this week's parasha, but the one following. We are at...Read more...
The Calendar of Time
05/04/2017 02:16:00 PM
There are all sorts of idioms in the English language concerning time. Time flies when you're having fun, time is fleeting, just in time; too many more to list. It seems that time does go by faster each year and as we grow older. I...Read more...
SACRIFICES, WHAT FOR?
03/29/2017 03:53:39 PM
This Shabbat, we begin the book of Vayikra; it's filled with laws for the people from G-d. There are rules for sacrifices, rules for Kashrut, rules for living a life of purpose in an ethical fashion. The Holiness Code is in the book of...Read more...
BERNSTEIN, SONDHEIM…. & FOX, BARON AND MIZRAHI
02/23/2017 03:40:20 PM
A funny thing happened on the way to writing a serious article on the history of Jewish Music…
With the best of serious intentions, I did my research and sat surrounded by many Jewish music history books. I'd been puzzling...Read more...
IT ONLY TAKES A MOMENT
01/19/2017 12:05:23 PM
Life is made up of moments. In the last week, I have witnessed three different moments in the Jewish lifecycle. I was privileged to participate in a Mikvah service of conversion for a child born of a surrogate. I spent time with several...Read more...
AL HA-NISSIM; A Prayer for our Jewish Heroes
12/15/2016 04:19:53 PM
Al HaNissim is a prayer in our liturgy that is chanted during the Amidah for both the Shacharit and Musaf services. You will find it on page 119 in Shacharit and page 160 in Musaf. It may not be familiar to you as...Read more...
Installation Speech as President of Valley Beth Shalom
09/13/2016 05:10:28 PM
By Scott Howard
September 8, 2016
1963, I was four years old. The Cubs had a lousy team. JFK was still our President. My memory is a little foggy going back that far, but as legend has it,...Read more...
THE SOUND OF HIGH HOLY DAYS
09/01/2016 01:21:02 PM
The month of Elul begins this weekend. For Jews, Elul is a time of reflection as we begin to prepare for the New Year. Our daily prayers add the Psalm for the Season of Repentance and the daily blowing of the Shofar. We take note of...Read more...
THE COUNTDOWN
07/28/2016 04:40:11 PM
FLASHBACK TO JUNE, 2003... VBS NURSERY SCHOOL GRADUATION...
My son Joshua and his classmates have just graduated nursery school to begin their education at VBS Day School. Our esteemed Rabbi and Teacher, Rabbi...Read more...
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