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April 2025 | Nissan/Iyar 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: Knowing full well that Jews all over the world are now busily occupying themselves with all of the Pesach preparations and necessary cleaning and changes to our homes, I share the following with you to help make the...
March 2025 | Adar 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the holiday of Purim quickly approaching, I share with you the following points and reminders concerning the holiday which I hope will be helpful to everyone in making the celebration of Purim festive and joyful....
February 2025 | Shevat 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: In a recent Shabbat drasha (sermon) and the preceding shiur (class), I spoke about elements of Hebrew that indicate specific meanings in words we learn in the Torah that can be misunderstood and misinterpreted when...
January 2025 | Kislev/Tevet/Shevat 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: For this month’s bulletin article, it was suggested to me that I present to you a couple recent questions that were posed to me together with the answers I shared with the questioners. I thought that could be an...
December 2024 | Cheshvan/Kislev 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: With the next holiday on our Jewish calendar, the festive chag of Chanukah, soon to be upon us, I share with you the following listing of mitzvot, traditions, customs, and rules concerning the holiday. I hope this is...
November 2024 | Cheshvan 5785
Shalom uvracha to all of the wonderful B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: I hope and trust that following the inspiring and moving Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur services, the holidays of Sukkot, Shmini Atzeret, and Simchat Torah, brought additional pleasure...
September & October 2024 | Av/Elul 5784 & Tishrei 5785
Dear B’nai Shalom Families, Members, and Friends: At the most recent gathering of my weekly Shiur (Shabbat afternoon class) during Seudah Shlisheet (the traditional Third meal, Shabbat afternoon), we engaged in a lively, interesting, and informative conversation...
August 2024 | Tammuz/Av 5784
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: While summertime is a time of great joy, pleasure, and relaxation for many people, there is a portion of the summer that does not match the joyfulness that often accompanies the summertime. As you will be reading this,...
July 2024 | Sivan/Tammuz 5784
Dear B’nai Shalom members, families, and friends: As you are reading this bulletin, we will be about halfway between the joyous festival of Shavuot, (behind us) and the sadness-filled fast day of Shiva Asar B’Tammuz, coming up in just a few weeks. There is ALWAYS...
June 2024 | Iyar/Sivan 5784
Dear B’nai Shalom members, friends, and families: Having recently returned from (what I discovered was my…) 25th trip to Eretz Yisrael, I would like to share with you a number of observations and points of interest from our trip. I hope you will find this helpful,...