by Rabbi Misha
We are excited to collaborate these holidays with musician and prayer leader Daphna Mor and the Beineinu community.
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by Rabbi Misha
Today is the first day of the Hebrew month of Elul, which marks the beginning of the season of Teshuvah.
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by Rabbi Misha
After Adolf Eichmann was sentenced to death in 1962, several prominent Jewish intellectuals and artists wrote to President Ben Zvi a letter urging him to commute the sentence.
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by Rabbi Misha
A few people have reached out to me with concern and questions over this week's events in Israel. Here's a summary of events, with some reflections.
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by Rabbi Misha
This message won’t be helpful. I will suggest a positive, even a wonderful outcome of certain disasters.
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by Rabbi Misha
Several times a day a walk by the Torah scroll in my closet. It took some time to get used to living with it, getting over the fear of something happening to it, of being in the constant presence of such a revered, holy object. Holiness comes with a certain degree of intensity.
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by Rabbi Misha
I’ve been immersed in thinking about nothingness, and then, at a bedtime story to Manu I came upon this. This is my inspiration for Shabbat this week.
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by Rabbi Misha
On Wednesday morning I joined the Shul’s Meditation Chevrutah for the weekly meditation.
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by Rabbi Misha
I walk into a classroom at the Cobble Hill branch of our Hebrew school and find 9 eleven and twelve year olds singing Hineh Ma Tov.
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by Rabbi Misha
Before I say some words about the end times, I'd like to thank all the artists, technicians, designers, curators, activists, prayer leaders, producers and directors of the Kumah Festival.
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by Rabbi Misha
Last year a 14-year-old student told me how a video that he posted on social media went viral. The reason: he was wearing his Jewish star necklace.
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by Rabbi Misha
In 1955 in Queens, NY, a small crowd gathered to say Kaddish for recently deceased Cyral Cottin.
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by Rabbi Misha
This past Tuesday was Yom Hashoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. On Monday, The New Shul will join with dozens of other organizations to sponsor the Joint Israeli-Palestinian Memorial Day Ceremony, and on Tuesday we will celebrate Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day.
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by Rabbi Misha
“My son plays soccer right over there,” Shira told us as she drove us into the parking lot on route to Rikers Island. She parked the car, and our small delegation of rabbis and activists picked up our passes that will allow us to drive over the bridge and enter the jail.
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