Lifesketches Life Sketches: A Rabbi and a Priest So a rabbi and a priest walk into a bar. No, this is not a joke, it’s a true story. But it wasn’t a bar,… By Yossy Goldman March 7, 2021 1
Life sketches Life Sketches: Tevye in the 99-Cent Store I walked into the 99-cent store on Poway Rd. and noticed a man smiling at me so I gave him a big “Hello!” By Mendy Rubenfeld February 28, 2021
Outreach Life Sketches: Tefillin in the Eldridge St. Shul This past summer, my wife and I and our 12-year-old daughter spent a few days in New York for her bat mitzvah. We love Jewish… By Rabbi Yossie Denburg February 21, 2021 1
Outreach Life Sketches: The Pushka in My Hand Mark,* the father of a six-year-old girl, recently lost his wife. I listened silently to his heartbreaking story. Was there anything I could do for… By Shmuly Hecht February 14, 2021
Outreach “Excuse me, are you Jewish?” Does stopping people at random to talk about Judaism even work? And what actually happens inside a Mitzvah Tank? By Rena Udkoff July 20, 2020 2
Outreach Life Sketches: The Convert at Kol Nidre It was 1991, our first year in Solon, and a week before our model Passover Seder when a woman in a local supermarket approached me. By Zushe Greenberg December 14, 2016