D’Var Torah: Parashat Noach
Maybe Don’t Pick That Lupine: Reflections on Noah’s Flood Raizy Lichtenstein, Jewish Studies Teacher Ancient flood narratives and myths abound: Mesopotamian, Greek, Norse, Native American,…
Dvar Torah – Ha’azinu
Rabbi Howard Jacoby Ruben, Head of School There is a curious pattern emerging in the Torah narratives we read on either side of Yom Kippur…
D’VAR TORAH (Nitzavim): In Your Mouth and in your Heart – Rosh Hashanah FoodsÂ
Raizy Lichtenstein, Jewish Studies Teacher The book of Deuteronomy is, above all, a collection of Moses’s final words to the Jewish nation, whom he has…
D’Var Torah: Parashat Ki Tavo
Michael Brody, Assitant Head of School In this week’s Parsha, Ki Tavo, Moses shares many laws and obligations with the Israelites before he dies. Moses…
D’Var Torah: Ki Tetze
On Parents and their Young Ones Merav Rozenblum, Hebrew Teacher Our previous department head would give every new faculty member a gift at the beginning…
D’Var Torah: Parashat Shoftim
By Rabbi Howard Jacoby Ruben, Head of School The default setting in Zoom is to mirror our self-view. Why? Because the mirror image presents a…
D’Var Torah: Parashat Re’eh
by Dr. Yosef Rosen, Jewish Studies Teacher When political events, our Torah cycle, the Jewish calendar, and our academic calendar all sync up, you know…
D’Var Torah: Parashat Va’etchanan
by Rabbi Joshua Buchin, Dean of 11th and 12th Grades This week’s Torah portion, Va’etchanan, contains within it perhaps the most famous, and certainly the…
Barbara Rosenberg, z”l
We mourn the passing of longtime JCHS Board member and alumni grandmother Barbara Rosenberg. Her early devotion to JCHS will forever inspire us. We invite…
