Torah Flight

By Michelle Azar
Published on May 6, 2013

Netanyahu: ‘Fatal mistake’ to concede sacred sites

Published on May 21, 2012

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday it would be a "fatal mistake" ever to give up control over Jerusalem's holy sites.

Calendar Girls Picks and Clicks for September 13-18: When Ladino met klezmer, Torah Slam, a lawyerly lecture

By Dikla Kadosh and Danielle Berrin
Published on September 12, 2008

MUSIC VIDEO: Amonai Shamati—Moroccan High Holy Day Piyyut

Published on September 10, 2008

Beautiful, pleading Sephardic High Holy Day piyyut recited on Rosh Hashana and Yom Kippur before Amidah. Tradtional Moroccan melody sung by Eyal Bitton.

Sacred Sounds All Over Town

By Ellen Jaffe-Gill
Published on September 15, 2005

Vanessa Paloma's performance at the 200-year-old mission is one highlight of the 2005 World Festival of Sacred Music, which will be spread out among many Los Angeles locations over a two-week period beginning Saturday.

Sacred Spaces

By Rabbi Mimi Weisel
Published on July 10, 2003

Sacred places are those sites where we can experience a unique sense of connection; these are the places where we turn outside of ourselves and become aware of our place in the universe. We sense the energies and flow of the universe and where we have a heightened sense that there is something larger than each of us that informs how we exist in the world.

The Reality of Desert Life

By Rabbi Steven Carr Reuben
Published on April 13, 2000

Draped in a deep, earthen-red shukah, adorned with circles of brightly beaded necklaces and head-to-toe with body paint made from ochre and sheep fat, the Masai warrior keeps a silent vigil in the midst of the relentless equatorial heat of East Africa. His life is a mission from his god, Ngai, to protect and care for his herd of cattle and the earth itself.