Israeli forces raze structures at two outposts
Israeli security forces razed several structures at two illegal West Bank outposts.
Israeli security forces razed several structures at two illegal West Bank outposts.
After a year\’s sabbatical in Boston, my family (a husband who is a Conservative pulpit rabbi, myself, and our three children aged 6, 11 and 14) returned to our home in Victoria, British Columbia. The sabbatical year had a profound experience on us — one that we had not anticipated. We decided that after 16 years living in a small Jewish community, where we found ourselves stretching in ways we never intended, where open-mindedness and adaptability were the ultimate virtues, and teaching religious parameters and structure to our children was viewed as parochial, it was time to move to a larger and more engaging Jewish community.
\”You shall live in booths seven days in order that future generations may know I made the Israelite people live in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt\” (Leviticus 23:42-43).
On the north side of the Skirball Cultural Center, two dozen construction workers shout to each other over the roar of the 405 Freeway.