Judaism

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — After Torah School on Wednesday, Judaica teacher Cheryl Katz, told me about her experience teaching her students about parashat Nitzavim: “You stand this day, all of you, before the Lord your God…to enter into the Covenant of the Lord your God….” (Deut. 29:9-11) She was trying to explain

By  Rabbi Baruch Lederman SAN DIEGO — When we adhere to G-d’s commandments, we are a truly blessed nation, as the following true account illustrates: Back in the mid nineties a Jewish advertising executive in New York came up with an idea. What if the New York Times – considered the world’s most prestigious newspaper

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — This week’s parasha, Ki Tavo, contains a declaration that the Israelites were to make after they had settled the land and brought their first fruits to the Kohen as an offering. The declaration begins: “I acknowledge this day before the Lord your God that I have entered the

By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb NEW YORK — It is a question which I learned never to ask. I first learned this lesson in my training as a psychotherapist, long ago. I was seeing a gentleman for a number of problems, including his marital difficulties. Despite the passage of the years, I still vividly remember

By Rabbi Leonard Rosenthal SAN DIEGO — During one early visit to Israel, Judy and I entered a coffee store to buy a pound of ground coffee. We watched in amazement as the proprietor held a paper bag under a chute, opened the door, closed it, and placed our coffee on his scale: it weighed