Am I a Seasoned Chicken?
Our Torah portion begins with an instruction for soldiers going out to war. Throughout the ages, soldiers often regarded the most primitive and bestial conduct as legitimate with regards to the citizens of conquered territory. The Jewish soldier was, perhaps...
Thank you, Seven Mile Market!
Herschel Boehm, owner of Baltimore's famous Seven Mile Market, has supported Project Genesis for several years. This year he equaled last year's generosity -- which would be noteworthy in any year, but especially in this economy. It means a great deal to our...
PG Tweets
We're "Tweeting" for Torah! Twitter is a rapidly-growing phenomenon in the area of "social networking," which people use to provide brief updates to others on what they are doing, "deeds great and small." Given its positive uses, we've begun to post to Twitter so that...
A Nation’s Heroes
I believe that you learn a lot about a culture from its heroes. If you need evidence that the European High Middle Ages were murderous, brutal and primitive, look at the heroes of the age -- they were warriors, not scientists, and so murderous that a healthy dose of...
Make a Best Effort, and With G-d’s Help…
At my son's eighth grade Seudas Preida (lit. "departure meal," or graduation dinner), each graduate was asked to say a brief thought. My wife gets the credit for finding a very apt thought on this week's reading. The Torah tells us that the spies went into the Land of...
Enhancing Shabbos With Shabbos Tweets
As many already know, the Baltimore JCC has decided to open its Owings Mills branch on Saturday afternoon, reversing a decision to keep it closed on Shabbos 12 years ago. Our own Rabbi Mordechai Dixler suggested that we think about what we can do to promote thinking...
