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The Rabbis teach that Torah was given down in fire, and it's transmitted in fire.    This might be the year to touch the flame and join in the eons old Jewish process of midrash - of exploring and seeking truth, which can be grabbed as completely as a burning flame. We turn over the received tradition and the revealed souls with beginner's mind and voracious creativity. As we interpret and grow, so does...Read more...

Way back in 1894, Samuel Beskin, originally of Russia, showed up in Beacon, NY, the first Jew to do so.

Beskin was followed by Affron, Cahn, Fisch, Ginsberg, Green, Lewis, Pearson, Ritter, Werber and many more.

On May 27, 1921, that crew of Jews formally incorporated Beacon Hebrew Alliance.

Now, 95 years later, we are going to celebrate and continue what they started!

Join us for New...Read more...

At the risk of stating the obvious, the Holocaust is first and foremost, the murder of six million Jewish human beings, the particular ancestors of many in this room, perhaps, and collectively, men, women and children who are among the ancestors of the Jewish people and of humanity as a whole.

But while the Holocaust was clearly an attack on Jews, it was also an attack on Judaism. Rabbi Yitz Greenberg has pointed out...Read more...

We are in the middle of Pesach, the holiday which celebrates the Exodus of our ancestors, the Israelites, going out from under oppression to build a more just society.

It is a fine and good thing for us to celebrate the freedoms we enjoy. The horrors of the 20th century are a constant reminder of how relentlessly oppressive governments can be and what a blessing it can be to live in this country.

And yet,...Read more...

Dear Friends:

We mourn the passing of our member, Dr. Robert Keimowitz, my father-in-law. Dr. Keimowitz is survived by his wife Hazel Keimowitz, daughters Jessica Keimowitz and Alison Keimowitz Spodek, and his grandchildren, Hannah and Miriam Crozier and Noa and Abraham Spodek.

Hazel can be reached at hazel@keimowitz.com; Alison can be reached at alison.spodek@gmail.com.

Dr. Keimowitz joined the...Read more...