Congregation Beth Mordecai
Congregation Beth Mordecai
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
An inclusive congregation affiliated with the Conservative Movement.
Your Jewish Home for the Soul!
May 15, 2016 By bethmordecai no comments.
WE'RE IN THE NEWS! - Check out the following publications which highlight Beth Mordecai and Rabbi Saks in the news!
NEW! Building Jewish Identity and 'Jewish DNA Pools' (New Jersey Jewish News, 5/15/16) -- previewing our Scholar in Residence Weekend
Time to act: Survivors need our support (New Jersey Jewish News, 5/3/16)
Local rabbis reject call for Muslim ban (New Jersey Jewish News, 12/28/15)
A Vision of Prayer for All Peoples? Moving Towards Interfaith 2.0 (State of Formation, 12/21/15)
'Mall rabbi' takes learning to the people (New Jersey Jewish News, 1/19/15)
Arab, Jew seek peace in land they share (New Jersey Jewish News, 12/22/14)
Purim 'homecoming' for Perth Amboy Jews (New[...]
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May 4, 2016 By bethmordecai no comments.
Rabbi Ari Saks wrote an article in the New Jersey Jewish News (published May 3rd, 2016) on the urgent need to financially support Holocaust survivors. Here is the introduction:
Some say timing is everything. This week, Jews and non-Jews worldwide commemorate Yom HaShoa U’gevura — Holocaust Remembrance Day. Yom HaShoa takes place on the anniversary of the Warsaw Ghetto uprising, the 27th day of the month of Nisan (this year May 5). It is not lost on many that this is a week after the end of Passover, and a week before Israel’s Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day for fallen soldiers) and Yom Ha’atzmaut (Israel’s Independence Day). So what can we learn from this coincidence of timing?...
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April 21, 2015 By bethmordecai no comments.
Dear Hevreh, Hebrew is hard, I know. Though I've spent many years reading, speaking, and singing Hebrew there are many times when I just don't get it. It can feel foreign, but amazingly enough, it can also feel homey. There's something about the cadence, the sound (especially those gutteral sounds that make you sound like you're coughing up something) that speaks directly to my soul, my neshamah. In my latest piece on State of Formation "Praying in Hebrew, Speaking in Tongues," I discuss how the difficulty of understanding Hebrew makes it tough to be a language of meaningful prayer when we want to know what we're saying when we pray. As such, it's important to find language in our mother tongue[...]
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December 11, 2013 By bethmordecai no comments.
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September 24, 2013 By bethmordecai no comments.
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