The whole Torah exists only for the sake of shalom. — The Talmud War is so unreasonable and wasteful a method of adjusting human differences that one wonders that men would have resorted to the ...

More than 50 of the watercolor paintings created by Israeli and Palestinian children in 1967 as part of a peace project were on display in 2022 at Columbia's Offit Gallery in the Gottesman Library at ...

An Advent reading for December 5. Amid the pain and violence of our world, we hold fast to this hope: One day Jesus will usher in true and ultimate peace. He also brings us spiritual peace in the here ...

We live in a world of turmoil – political, geopolitical, spiritual. Too often it seems that turmoil and strife are fundamental to our natures, but they are not. We want peace; we seek peace; we pray ...

Each week I have the honor and privilege of teaching a class at Temple Shalom. After each class I am reminded of the passage from the Talmud, "I have learned much from my teachers and even more from ...

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One of my favorite places to pray is in a grove of trees at the corner of our church's property. More than 80 years ago, a bandshell was built in the grove. Last year, we converted the bandshell into ...

Not long ago, my good friend goes into the auto parts store, looking for a new catalytic converter, when this guy walks in. White. Twenty-something. Shaky, with an unstable energy that says to the ...

Each week I have the honor and privilege of teaching a class at Temple Shalom. After each class I am reminded of the passage from the Talmud, "I have learned much from my teachers and even more from ...