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Rachel Petroff Kessler, Director of Lifelong Learning, introduces us to Broadway legend and “Bad Jew” Idina Menzel. Photo of Menzel Courtesy of Ted Eytan on Wikimedia Commons, covered under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Parashat: Bamidbar Torah Reading: Numbers 1:1–4:20 “Take a census of the whole Israelite company [of fighters] by the clans of its ancestral houses, listing the names, every male, head by head.” — Numbers 1:2 Mazals! We’ve officially made it to our newest book — Bamidbar (or B’midbar, depending on your grammar and pronunciation). The Israelite Continue Reading »
Rabbi Craig Axler introduces us to incredible survivor Yuval Raphael, 2nd place winner in the 2025 Eurovision Song Contest. The Official Music Video of her song, New Day Will Rise, can be viewed at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3BELu4z6-U. Photo of Raphael Courtesy of Tal Givoni on Wikimedia Commons, and is under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported.
The Howard County Arts Council’s mission is to ensure that the arts (theater, visual arts, music arts, etc.) are supported in Howard County, representative of the wishes of county residents, and are accessible to county residents. To help achieve these goals, the Council has prepared a short survey by which the Council hopes to learn Continue Reading »
Parasha: Behar-Bechukotai Leviticus 25:1–27:34 “I will grant you rains in their seasons, so that the earth shall yield its produce and the trees of the field their fruit.” — Leviticus 26:4 This reward for being faithful to the commandments of the Torah is a difficult one. We know, empirically, that the cycles of weather act Continue Reading »
Rabbi Amanda K. Weiss introduces us to radical thinker Baruch Spinoza, the 17th century philosopher whose rational approach connects him to modern Judaism. Photo of “Portrait of Benedictus de Spinoza” courtesy of the Collection of Herzog August Library on Wikimedia Commons, and is Public Domain.
