Sheilah Abramson-Miles

WRJ Voices: Naso

May 25, 2018

Most of this week’s Torah portion, Naso, deals with issues totally foreign to the Jewish people today. It begins with a census of the Levites; the tribe entrusted with the rituals of the tabernacle, our first holy space. Chapter five deals with impurity...

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WRJ Voices: Yom Kippur

Sheilah Abramson-Miles

September 29, 2017

As we observe Yom Kippur 5778, we stand together, pray and fast as a Jewish community plagued by fear and doubt. The year 5777 presented us with images many believed were part of our tragic past; certainly not our present nor our future.

We witnessed our..