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Our Winter/Spring 2012 Schwartz/Reisman Adult Learning Brochure is now online

Our Winter/Spring 2012 Gerald Schwartz and Heather Reisman Centre for Adult Learning at Holy Blossom Temple Booklet is now on-line. Please take some time to peruse the wonderful courses offered this season. There are courses for all tastes.…

Video: A Chanukah Short! from Holy Blossom Temple

[video_lightbox video=http://www.youtube.com/v/xVfG92-Uggo image="/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/Chanukah-screengrab.png"] Ever wanted to know more about the function of the shammash (or ninth candle)? Wish to begin to get in the Chanukah singing…
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Learning From Bernard Lewis: Read This Essay

Few know Semites and anti-Semites like Bernard Lewis, Professor Emeritus at Princeton, and the leading academic of Near Eastern Studies of our time. I came across this essay from "The American Scholar" a few days ago, and learned a good…
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Benny Morris – November 17, 2011

The complete video of Benny Morris: What Must Israel Do To Survive – And Thrive? lecture - November 17, 2011 at 8 p.m. Part of the Gerald Schwartz / Heather Reisman Fall Lecture Series at Holy Blossom Temple. To learn about our upcoming…
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Our New Siddur: What I Say in the Preface

Here is a taste of the new siddur we launched this past Shabbat morning– my preface at the outset of Siddur Pirchei Kodesh. PREFACE: Siddur Pirchei Kodesh With the publication of Siddur Pirchei Kodesh, Holy Blossom Temple has embraced…
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Parashat Noach: What Do We Learn About Noach From His Father?

In honour of this week’s Torah reading, Noach( Genesis 6:9—11:31), here is an exploration of who Noach was, especially as understood through the ways, crooked and not, of his father, Lamech. This is a chapter I wrote for “The Modern…
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Saving His Life: A Prayer For Gilad Shalit’s Safe Return

Holy Blossom is fortunate to have with us two young Israelis—Or Shalem and Mai Levy—for their year  of service to Israel and to the Jewish world prior to their entering the army. They are sensitive and smart, attractive models for the younger…
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What Rabbis Should Say on Rosh Hashanah About Israel

On Rosh Hashanah or on Yom Kippur, most rabbis will speak about the serious situation in which Israel finds herself now. We’re not politicians, we’re not analysts, we’re not possessed of the gift of prophesy. Therefore, if we dare…
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Siddur Pirchei Kodesh – El Adon – Cantor Maissner

Learn with Cantor Maissner a beautiful melody for “El Adon”---the liturgy and melody part of the liturgical library of the Jews, and soon to be part of ours, too, at Holy Blossom.
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Life Lessons – Learning From Rabbi John Rosove

One of the finest rabbis I know is my dear friend, John Rosove, the rabbi of Temple Israel of Hollywood.  Rabbi Rosove and I have known one another since meeting in 1975 at a conference on Jewish Feminism at UCLA (We were two of about five…

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