Category: Lectures

  In the Face of So Much Evil, The Only Consolation August 3, 2022 | by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff From the ashes of Tisha B’Av to uncovered Nazi medical experiments, the Jewish people relentlessly endure. The rumors would not die. For decades the stories of human remains from Nazi victims preserved as medical specimens swirled over the…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: DEVARIM: EICHAH: YIDDELIN SHRAI AD MASAI By:  Suri Davis אֵיכָ֥ה אֶשָּׂ֖א לְבַדִּ֑י טׇרְחֲכֶ֥ם וּמַֽשַּׂאֲכֶ֖ם וְרִֽיבְכֶֽם׃ How can I bear unaided the trouble of you, and the burden, and the bickering! Deuteronomy 1:12 Moses asks the nation, how he can carry the burden of the people, how he can lead alone. The first word…

  Adolf Eichmann’s Confession July 17, 2022 | by Slovie Jungreis-Wolff Eichmann claimed he was bureaucrat following orders. Recently released transcripts of conversations he had with a Nazi journalist show Eichmann boasting of his significant role in executing the Final Solution. These are the bone chilling words of Adolf Eichmann, the driving force behind the Nazis’ “Final…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  PINCHAS: TRANSFORMATION By: Suri Davis   There is a beautiful concept roaming around these last three torah portions that is so integral to where we are now in history. We have the story in the portion of Chukat, where Moses is told to glorify G-d’s name by talking to the rock and he…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  BALAK: ELECTIONS, PEARSALL DEVELOPMENT By: Suri Davis   It’s insulting already how there has not been one Orthodox woman put on a meaningful election ballot in Nassau County.  The last time there was a meaningful Jewish female candidate was Carol Berman: Wikipedia:  Carol Berman (born September 21, 1923) is a New York Democratic Party politician from Lawrence, in Nassau…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: CHUKAT: FAITH By:  Suri Davis   Forty six years ago today Jewish hostages were saved from their kidnapped place in Entebbe Uganda.  Those alive at the time will remember holding our collective breathes waiting to hear the fait of the 94 Israelis and Jews who were held hostage in Uganda with the consent…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM: EAU DE TOILETTE By:  Suri Davis The numerical value of Korach is Rekach, a perfumer or spiced as in Song of Songs 5:13:  “like a bed of spices are His words at Sinai, like towers of perfume,” and 8:2:…”to drink, I’d give You spiced libations, wines like pomegranate nectar.” Perfume and spices are…

This Father’s Day, take a moment and appreciate the primary mission of being a father. A mother confided with me what her kids wanted for a Passover afikomen present. “Daddy, we’d love for you to come home once a week for supper. We never really get to see you and talk to you. That would be the…

CHOCHMAS NASHIM:  KIBBUTZ GALUYOT Suri Davis   Sunny daze everything’s a okay… As I prepare for my son’s wedding, my other sons are coming in from Israel My daughter is coming home with her new husband The wedding is on the summer solstice, the longest day of the year Relatives are coming near and far…

TEACHERS PUT YOUR WEAPONS DOWN By: Suri Davis I went to a park recently where there were nursery/kindergarten children from a school with their teachers.  There were many exciting swings and obstacle courses with which the children could play, except for one thing. The teachers were armed.  Armed with what, you might ask?  Armed with…