JRC and The Israel Palestine Working Group is committed to fostering and encouraging learning and connection through respectful open dialogue. We find it meaningful to be in community at JRC where we are able to openly share our diverse set of beliefs, thoughts and...
Shabbat Shuvah – Parshat Vayeilech (Deuteronomy 31) 5 Tishrei 5786 (9/26/2025) by JRC member Linda Mathias Kaskel Welcome to Our Season of Return Here we are on Shabbat Shuvah, the Sabbath of Return, we stand in the sacred space between Rosh Hashanah and...
On March 14th of last year, my brother Steve Mendelson died after a short bout of renal cancer. Steve was the middle brother of what my father lovingly referred to as My Three Sons, which, for those of you too young to remember, was a television show in the 1960s....
November 9, 2024 D’var by JRC member Vickie Korey Lech Lecha is the third parsha in the book of Genesis. In the beginning, there is Creation. The first through seventh days and nights are created. The Sabbath is designated, man and woman are created, sins are noted,...
Shabbat Shalom! This week’s Torah portion, Eikev, is the third section of the Book of Deuteronomy, where Moses continues his second farewell address to the Israelites and urges them to observe even what appear to be minor commandments. Moses then continues his review...
The defining structure of this parsha is repetition. We have encountered everything in this parsha, more than once. As if someone is either phoning it in, being paid by the word, or are afraid the message was lost in translation. Considering how many times the...
