Tag: ARTICLES

There’s something characterizes the Jewish community: the ability to “form a community” and to remain united in the face of adversity, understanding that we need one another to multiply moments of happiness and difficulties. 

Speaking about a feminine space, a women’s space is always a challenge and a risk. Therefore, like in Judaism, we want to maintain differences to promote personal growth, the growth of communities and the formation of new connections. We are many, with plans and ideas. Dreams and passions.

For thousands of years, Jews have lived all over the world, spread across five continents. In this dispersion, which was sometimes by choice and sometimes by obligation, the Jews began to create and to establish themselves. The history of Jewish heritage as a nation began outside the land of Israel; and the formation of Medinat Israel is the result of a series of relationships, contacts and migrations to and from the land of Israel.

In early November of this year, we read Parasha Vayera, which tells the story of Avraham, who shortly after his self-circumcision received a visit from God. Contrary to the ordinary interpretation in which Avraham would have received the divine presence through three angels who would introduce themselves in the form of travelers, rabbinic literature brings another interpretation of this moment.

I ask myself how many of us actually know the importance and transcendence of the World Zionist Congress; a few months ago I just knew about some dates, some places where it took place, and the name of someone of utmost importance to all of us: Theodor Herzl.

Tamar is the front of the post-tnuah youth of the Reform Movement. In Hebrew, Tamar is the “palm tree”  that generates the fruit known as the date. Among some of their meanings and symbolism, the date palm species needs 70 years to bear fruit, yielding the honey mentioned in the Torah. 

The second principles’ declaration of the reform Jewish movement of the United States of 1937 was a peace message to…

When we take on the responsibility of receiving the Torah, we continually take on the onus of becoming and being…

The Jewish calendar incorporated Yom haShoah, Yom haAtzmaut and Yom haZikaron: how should we celebrate those dates outside Israel? Diego…