Beginning this week, Reflections will occasionally reprint articles written by lay members of our communities and published in the various community magazines, with the aim of giving thoughtful and engaging writing by our members a broad...
We call him Jethro, but his Hebrew name is Yitro. Its root is probably from Yeter, which Joan Comay, in her classic Who’s Who in the Old Testament, translates as “excellence”. Presumably, she is referring to Jacob’s use of the ...
As a survivor of a Jewish secondary school and a veteran of over 10 years in Noam, I’d like to think that I’ve had my fair share of Jewish experiences. I did the Bar Mitzvah circuit in 2004-5, and that was wild. Those of who have been...
