My friends, I know that news travels fast and bad news even faster.  It would pain me to share todays’s news and even more so, that we are so close to Rosh Hashanah.  Some of you may have already heard that Temple Beth Torah was defaced with anti-Semitic and hateful...

This tends to be a favorite time of year for me in many regards.   We get the last heat-waves of the summer, as I write this today, it’s a balmy 108 degrees in the far west San Fernando Valley.  But even as the heat beats down, August is winding...

My friends,   Living here in Southern California, all of us have experienced earthquakes, large and small.  We know from our own experiences how very scary on a visceral level it is to have the very earth itself moving.  We’ve seen the damage and devastation up close and would never...

We’ve just passed the holiday of חג האביב-The Spring holiday, commonly called Passover or פסח. We observe at Passover the exodus of the Jewish people from Egypt. But we also note that group leaving Egypt was a very long way from being unified, from feeling peoplehood, let alone nationhood. At...

By the time this edition of the Migdalor is released, we will be just about to enter the space for the חג האביב-The Spring Holiday, of Passover.  The planning and cleaning and cooking should all be done.  We are prepared to welcome the holiday, welcome our guests and even the...