Maryland Synagogue Vandalized with Swastikas …– Tablet Magazine
This morning, Jewish residents of Gaithersburg, MD, awoke to find the local Conservative synagogue defaced. Congregation Shaare Torah is situated less than an hour from Washington, D.C., and was...
View ArticleRabbi Aharon Lichtenstein, a Leader of Modern …– Tablet Magazine
This morning, Rabbi Dr. Aharon Lichtenstein, rabbinic dean of Yeshivat Har Etzion and a leader of Modern Orthodox Jewry, passed away at the age of 81. The American-raised Talmudist and philosopher is...
View ArticleToil and Text: The Twin Gifts of Shavuot – Tablet Magazine
By Tablet Magazine. The summer after my freshman year of college, I took a job on a 10-acre organic farm in Vermont. Each day in this lush new world held a revelation: the potpourri of manure and old...
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