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NYJW Sabbath Week

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:12 p.m. Torah: Num. 4:21-7:89 Haftorah: Judges 8:2-25 Havdalah: 9:12 p.m. Dr. Barry Schwartz, a psychologist, delivered a Ted Talk on what he called the “explosion of choices” we now have: In his local supermarket there are seemingly endless varieties of cookies, soups, cereals and toothpastes. When it comes to health […]

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’I don’t know much about Judaism, Rabbi, but I know it shouldn’t needlessly hurt people.” So says a man to me many years ago. His words still haunt me. Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 8:09 p.m. (Fri.); 9:09 p.m. (Sat.); 9:10 p.m. (Sun.) Torah: Numbers 1:1-4:20 (Sat.); Exodus 19:1-20:23 (Sun.); Deuteronomy 14:22-16:17 (Mon.); Num. 8:26-31 (Sun., Mon.);   […]

Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:05 p.m. Torah: Lev. 26:3-27:34 Haftorah: Jeremiah 16:19-17:14 Havdalah: 9:06 p.m.            The curses in Bechukotai [Leviticus 26:14-45] at the end of the Book of Vayikra help explain a strange phenomenon relating to this year’s public reading of the Torah. Israel is now reading a parasha ahead of the diaspora because the […]

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