Interfaith Exploration of Psalms
01/06/2016 05:01:00 AM
The Psalms have been a source of joy, comfort and inspiration for people of all faith and of none for milenia.
Join the clergy of Better Together for an exploration of the Psalms and what they might mean...Read more...
What Miracle?
12/02/2015 05:55:00 AM
Hanukkah, the eight day holiday of lights, is the simplest and most complicated of holidays all at once.
On the most basic level the traditional practice is to light a hannukiah (or menorah) at sundown on...Read more...
Remembrance for Shefa Chaim Yitzhak Simkovic Weintraub
11/19/2015 09:23:00 AM
Dear Friends:
The memorial for Shefa Chaim Yitzhak Simkovic Weintraub will be held this Friday, November 20, at noon at the Simkovic/Weintraub home, 248 Liberty Street, Beacon, NY.
Regarding parking, if a half-mile walk is comforable for you, please park at the lot of the First Presbyterian Church (50 Liberty Street), which has graciously made their lot available to us. A map is available...Read more...
How to Support Bereaved Parents
11/18/2015 05:54:00 AM
Written and compiled by Sari Edber (sari.edber@missfoundation.org)
With additions from co-facilitators and other bereaved parents of The MISS Foundation
You are...Read more...
Illumin8 2015
11/17/2015 10:49:00 AM
Make Yourself for the Future
11/10/2015 10:32:00 AM
When I was in high school, I used to speak a little bit of Spanish, and poorly at that.
Years later, when I was traveling solo in Central America, I discovered that I was not remotely equipped to negotiate taxis or meals in the market. I remember clearly feeling like a total idiot as I stood in a papusaria in San Salvador and was howled at by a row of working men as I tried to explain I wanted a vegetarian...Read more...
The Power of Exodus
11/04/2015 05:04:00 AM
The small Salvadoran village of Ciudad Romero has a small church at its center, and the walls of this church are painted with an incredible mural. This mural, which is really a communal autobiography, tells the tale of how the members of this poor community survived the darkest years of the Salvadoran revolution.
The mural depicts their spiritual leader, Monsignor Oscar Romero as Moses and the residents themselves as...Read more...
Weekend Round Up
10/16/2015 05:17:00 AM
Dear Friends:
We are blessed with an incredibly strong and vibrant community here at BHA; virtually everyone who comes to visit is struck by it. Of course, community isn't found; it's made - it's made by people investing time into relationships with other people, its made by people investing energy into the ties that bind us to each other and to the Divine. It's made by you and me. That community you've been looking for? The...Read more...
Turning Outward
10/11/2015 06:04:00 AM
By far, the greatest miracle is that we exist at all.
Before the Big Bang, before what the Kabbalistic tradition calls the contraction (??????), there was something. And that something reached beyond what was known and familiar - the universe before the universe - to form something new - the universe as we know it.
Heady stuff, to be sure.
Yet a central truth about human existence is embedded in...Read more...
Simchas Torah Beacon Style
10/06/2015 10:37:00 AM
When I was younger, I so much wanted to escape what I thought the Jewish...Read more...
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