Over on The Foundation Stone, Rabbi Simcha Weinberg is running a series on Shalom Aleichem. (No not the author.) Rabbi Weinberg invited some fellow Rabbi bloggers to post their thoughts on Shalom Aleichem and angels.
I found a few minutes to put something together and you can read it on Foundation Stone by clicking here.
You can [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Shabbos’
Shalom Aleichem Series on The Foundation Stone
The Jewish Home – In Memory of The Holzbergs Formerly of Mumbai | Drasha Vayetze 2009
Special thanks to community member Elizabeth Danziger, founder of Worktalk Communications Consulting, for assisting in transforming this sermon from last year into an essay for this year.
The Jewish Home
Vayetze 5769
This week marks the first anniversary of the terrorist attack on the Chabad House in Mumbai, India. I dedicate this learning to the memory of the [...]
KCET Visits PJC and Interviews Me
KCET (the local PBS affiliate) has been working on a city-wide project. It is called Departures and it focuses on the people and places that make the neighborhoods of Los Angeles. For the last six weeks they have been working on Venice. Today they came to the Pacific Jewish Center Shul on the Beach to [...]
A Jewish Black Woman's "Henry Gates" Situation
As a Law Student, there are things I find interesting that may not interest “clients” (non-Lawyers, hehe). The following article interests me and will probably interest any lawyer or law student, anyone Jewish, or anyone that has been following the Gates Saga.
I invite you to contribute your opinion in the comments.
The article originally appeared in [...]
Shame on Gizmodo | Shame on Us Too
One of my favorite gadget blogs ran a discpicable headline for a post yesterday. Gizmodo is a great blog when it comes to getting information, reviews and opinions on the latest technology and gadgets. Unfortunately, yesterday they disgraced their reputation with a pretty offensive headline.
The headline garnered enough attention that they ultimately changed it to [...]
Great Shavuos Turnout Renders Previous Post Moot
Last week I blogged about my bond of kinship with a pastor in Ocean City Maryland.
We both are clergy working on beaches with fickle crowds. Sometimes we are packed and sometimes we are not…
The post generated a bit of a response from some of our Community Members as well as some other blog readers. We [...]
A Piece of Peace
We had a spectacular Shabbos on the beach this week.
Friday Night Dinner was punctuated by a bang. An earthquake struck the area and sent many of us under the table for cover! The earthquake however was no match for the Shabbos Lunch meal the next day…
For the first time anyone can remember all 3 observant [...]
Truth or Consequences – Drasha Vayigash
Thank you to community member Milton Simon for editing these Shabbos speeches given at the Pacific Jewish Center from my notes into these essays.
Today we are going to talk about truth. We will also discuss the opposite of truth. What is the opposite of truth? Something is true when it is in accordance with the [...]
A Good Man Never Rests – Drasha Vayeshev
Thank you to community member Milton Simon for editing these Shabbos speeches given at the Pacific Jewish Center from my notes into these articles.
The Torah tells us in this week’s parsha, “Vayeshev Yaakov b’eretz megurei aviv b’eretz Canaan” Yaakov and his entire family returned to the land of his parents – the land of Canaan. [...]
Happy Hanukah Too: Kosher Machine Only Serves 24/6 Because It's Shomer Shabbos
Happy Hanukah Too: Kosher Machine Only Serves 24/6 Because It’s Shomer Shabbos.
On a gadget blog commentors get a full on education about Shabbos!
It is incredible how many people know about Shabbos and now have a grasp of some of the concepts. Eventually we are going to do a Shabbos Connections with community wide Shabbos participation [...]
Venice CA and Santa Monica California Jewish Learning and Judaism
Learn Torah, enjoy a Shabbos / Shabbat meal, join us for services, come visit our Shul, discover your Jewish heritage with Pacific Jewish Center at the Shul on the Beach.
We are located at 505 Ocean Front Walk, Venice CA.
Our website it http://pjcenter.com.
Our email is info@pjcenter.com.
Our Rabbi is Eliyahu Fink, he is always available via email [...]
