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This past Monday at Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center in Manhattan, I along with a thousand other patrons attended an extraordinary concert “Defiant Requiem: Verdi At Terezin.” The event was produced under the guidance of Ambassador Stuart E. Eizenstat, board chair of The Defiant Requiem Foundation, and UJA-Federation of New York. It honored the memory […]

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Call it “Raiders of the Found Ark.” Two months ago, Tamid, a new liberal congregation that holds services and classes in a variety of downtown locations, began raising money to build an ark to hold its Torah scroll. A week and a half ago, Tamid’s Rabbi Darren Levine got an e-mail from Jason Friedman, an […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 7:35 p.m. Torah: Leviticus 25:1-27:34 Haftarah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 Havdalah: 8:39 p.m. This week’s Torah reading teaches a number of beautiful ethical principles, urging that the Jewish people enshrine them as laws within their new society in Canaan: Reverse all land sales in the Jubilee Year; release debtors from their debts during […]

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