Sprucing Up For Yom Tov
Steve Lipman Staff Writer For members of a synagogue, the preparation for the High Holy Days season starts weeks, if not months before Rosh HaShanah.In some congregations, there are the daily selichot...
View ArticleListen To The Music Of Prayer
Rabbi Gerald Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist Although those who daven (pray) regularly rarely think of it in these terms because they take it so for granted, music plays an irreducibly crucial...
View ArticleWatching the Light Bulb Turn On
Rabbi Gerald Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist For most of my thirty-two years as the rabbi of the Forest Hills Jewish Center, I have been teaching a weekly class to our Hebrew High School students...
View ArticleWe Are the People in Your Neighborhood: What A Synagogue Really Is
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist As you might imagine, I spend a lot of time talking about my synagogue with other rabbis and laypeople. It is a natural thing for professionals and...
View ArticleA Garden Party For 30 Gymnasts
Steve Lipman The garden was jumping one recent night. Actually, some 30 young girls were jumping — on the floor of Madison Square Garden. And they were leaping and juggling and throwing hoops in the...
View ArticleSeeking Solace: A Normally Small Interfaith Service Draws Triple The Crowd
Rabbi Gerald C. Skolnik Jewish Week Online Columnist For many years now, the Interfaith Clergy Group of Forest Hills, of which I am a proud member, has sponsored an Interfaith Thanksgiving Service on...
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