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…ood. For this is what Hillel warned against: One who uses Torah for personal gain perishes. (Avot 4:7) For information on BEKI’s kashrut policies, see www.beki.org under “kashrut.” For communal standards, see www.kinahara.org….
…RIC Colene Brown Art Prize. Safran-Hon’s art can be viewed on her website, www.naomisafranhon.com At BEKI, Two Artists Channel Visions Of Home, by Al Larriva-Latt Review of exhibitions by Suzanne Neusner and Naomi Safran-Hon Her work was reviewed by Seph Rodney for the New York Times in 2020; read the review at www.nytimes.com/2020/05/15/arts/design/naomi-safran-han.html Three doors into my blue heart in pink and orange Prices on Request. For inqu…
…s is in the way his paintings utilize the interplay of gazes within their borders and between their surfaces and the viewer. Figures in the paintings – including animals – often stare at the viewer. Just as often, however, they look so intently into their computers that they seem not to notice one another or the viewer. Sometimes different kinds and directions of gazes occur within one painting, and sometimes the gaze of the mirror overcomes them…
…ents Sara Labowe and Steven Stoll, and supported by family and friends, in order to help sustain the Congregation. At the time of the Fund’s establishment at the Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven, Sara and Steven commented, “This is one way we wish to express our appreciation to our community, and to God, for the blessings of love, joy and Torah that we experience through Batsheva.” The Ben & Ruth Marks Endowment The Ben & Ruth Marks Endowmen…
…t’s not significant, right? Synonyms, additional names of G, reversing the order of nouns. But the next difference is crucial. In the first story, the universe unfurls one layer at a time in a parade of days until it gets to humankind, as the climax. Light, night, sky, dry land, seas. And when the story comes around to life, it sounds sort of like evolution: plants, and then sea creatures, then winged birds, then cattle and wild beasts. then Human…
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…eady with Jacob. But these angels can only travel so far with him, to the border of Canaan. Now that he is leaving Canaan, new angels with a new mission must guide him. In a way, this happens in all our lives. When you leave one place, or a stage in your life, you leave behind the protectors and guides of that place or stage, and you face the uncertainty of whether there will be people who will take their place. Jacob was lucky in that new angels…
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…much more in this collection than can be presented in this brief essay. In order to facilitate access to other tales that demonstrate nonviolent values and approaches, and in order to encourage the reading of the texts, a “Nonviolence Motif Index” is appended for selected stories. Nonviolence Motif Index to Selected Tales Tale number in Ben-Amos & Mintz/Beginning page number in Horodezky. Repentance 12/48 Accepted from anyone 24/119 Urged by Bes…