Rabbi Leah Richman interprets the Song of Songs.
Torah
Blessings for Life's Journey
Each week, Rabbi Sheryl Lewart, z”l, would send out blessings to congregants and friends, offering a modern twist on each week’s Torah portion. Blessings for Life's Journey is a posthumously published collection of her writings.
Type: Book
Journeying Through the Torah
This Simchat Torah program is geared for family education with children K-5. The program incorporates various learning "stations" to explore the beginning, middle and end of the Torah.
Type: Family Education Program
Hannah's Prayer and Reconstructionist Principles
This article is adapted from a paper presented to the Women's Dialogue Group of the New York Chapter of the American Jewish Committee on May 2, 2002. Lefkovitz reinterprets the biblical text of 1 Samuel 1:1-28.
Type: RT Article
Toddlers Turn On to Torah
How can you delight two- and three-year-olds with chanting of Torah in ancient melodies called trope? How do you pull them into the storyline, calling out questions and literally jumping out of their seats to shout Hazak! Hazak! Venithazek! (Be strong! Be strong! And may we be strengthened!) at the end of each portion, as if it were a chorus from the latest Disney blockbuster? Rabbinical student Marisa Elana James did just that, weekly, during her year as director of programming at a congregation in New York City. In this article, you can read about her methodology and listen to her chanting and questioning her very young congregants.