Around the Town
By Amy Wolff Sorter On Dec. 25, the Sorter family traveled to an assisted living home in North Richland Hills and met up with some folks from Congregation Beth Israel…
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Dallas Doings
By Sharon Wisch-Ray When the unimaginable violence occurred at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown, Conn., last month, members of our local community were quick (as usual) to spring into action…
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An American century
Kogutt/Kogut group gathers on the day forefather landed on U.S. soil.
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Two rabbis with the same message
By Harriet P. Gross This week: A tale of two rabbis. One has been very much in the national news these past few weeks because of his role following December’s…
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Helping hands handle it
Yavneh Academy group raises funds to help battered women.
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Let faith lead you to trust
By Rabbi Dan Lewin Struggle and uncertainly are a part of life. And as we move into the yet unknown future, especially in difficult situations, there is an inner call…
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Around the Town
By Amy Wolff Sorter Though most of us don’t observe Christmas, and though the secular New Year isn’t what one would call a major event on the Hebrew calendar, the…
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Don’t do mitzvot for trophies
By Rabbi Yerachmiel D. Fried Dear David W., Last week, we discussed your question concerning performing mitzvot out of love and not out of fear, not for the sake of…
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Children need to know about prayer
By Laura Seymour Recently, I asked the Sherry and Ken Goldberg Family Early Childhood Center pre-K children, “What is a prayer?” They immediately started sharing different blessings. Even at age…
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These days, we’re People of Words
By Harriet P. Gross We pride ourselves on being “The People of the Book” — that book, of course, being our Torah. But “book” in English (and many other languages)…
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