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Here in no particular order is a selection I would make of some of my better Divrei Torah from past years that still have relevance today. If I haven’t fixed a link here let me know! I’m working through them. Your Moral Autobiography (5786/2025) The Power of Kindness in a Brutal World (5786/2025) Who Knows? (5780/2019) How Continue Reading »
Temple Beth Abraham’s Keter Shem Tov nominee is Ellie Schwartz. Ellie grew up in Massachusetts. She attended Brandeis, then the University of Michigan, earning both a Master’s in Library Science and an MBA. In 1988, she and her husband joined Temple Beth Abraham (TBA). Ellie’s contributions to TBA have been many and varied. She served Continue Reading »
Here are two talks of mine, each a bit more than ten minutes, about the Exodus narrative as the backbone of Judaism and the book that transformed everything. I hope these can be grounding especially in the current times. You can watch or listen on YouTube, or read them. All the links are below. I Continue Reading »
At our Chanukkah party at the synagogue I mentioned these organizations and funds for helping with immediate needs: Donations for the Nashua overnight warming station — coffee (ground or instant), tea, individually wrapped snacks/snack bars can be dropped off at the Nashua Division of Public Health and Community Services, 18 Mulberry Street on the 2nd Continue Reading »
Here is a selection I would make of some of my better Divrei Torah from past years that still have relevance today. Who Knows? (5780/2019) How the story of Esther even more than the Torah can guide us to live in a world of randomness and mortal dangers. How Good Do I Have to Be? (5777/2016) Continue Reading »
By Sarit Tsor When families first hear about the Jewish Education Center of Nashua (JECoN), the question we hear most often is: “So… is this a fancy name for Hebrew School?” The short answer? No. It’s so much more. Albert Einstein once said, “The only source of knowledge is experience.” At JECoN, that’s exactly Continue Reading »
By Eitan Zeira How does one who identifies as Jewish, which implies some relation or intimation of a God, participate in the scientific process? How does a person reconcile faith with evidence-based explorations? These are questions I suspect many have struggled and tossed in their minds as they pursue both. To say I believe in Continue Reading »
By Sarit Tsor, July 2025 The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has gained renewed global attention and heightened emotions following the October 7, 2023, Hamas massacre in the Gaza Envelope of Israel, which initiated a war that is still ongoing as I write this in July 2025. Alongside this, the term “Zionism” has become increasingly controversial. Many pro-Palestinian Continue Reading »