Rabbi Mark Biller explores this fascinating topic through the lens of biblical figures Moses, Hannah, Jacob and Miriam. Part 2.
Month: May 2026
Celebrate Diversity on June 7
Join us on the Morristown Green for our annual Celebration of Diversity, from noon to 5:00 p.m., presented by the Diversity Coalition of Morris County.
Personal Giving Thank-You Brunch May 17: ‘Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen’s Jewish Sources’
Everyone who donates to our ongoing 2026 Personal Giving campaign is invited to our Personal Giving Thank-You Brunch on Sunday, May 17, at 9 a.m., in Denville. Co-chairing the campaign are Dorothy Cohen and Anne Gorman. Our special guest speaker for the brunch will be Rabbi James Feder, assistant rabbi at Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, spotlighting the songwriter/musician/poet Leonard Cohen’s Jewish sources.
Can’t We All Just Get Along? Jewish, Christian and Muslim Relations as Expressed in Yehudah HaLevi’s The Kuzari: What We Can Learn For These Turbulent Times
It was the best of times and the worst of times when preeminent Sephardic Jewish poet Yehudah HaLevi lived (1075–1141). Spanish Jews were highly respected and treated “relatively well,” points out Rabbi David Nesson, Rabbi Emeritus of the Morristown Jewish Center–Beit Yisrael (MJCBY), who will present the highly engaging tale of The Kuzari on Thursday, May 7, at 1 p.m. over Zoom.