Let’s Take Steps to End Police Brutality Now
What the world needs right now is love, openness and empathy, writes Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro of Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation.
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Minneapolis Police officer Derek Chauvin is shown kneeling on George Floyd's neck on May 25, leading to Floyd's death. (Photo taken by onlooker with a mobile phone)
What the world needs right now is love, openness and empathy, writes Rabbi Yerachmiel Shapiro of Moses Montefiore Anshe Emunah Hebrew Congregation.
Read MoreAfter more than 2,000 years of neglect, this Chanukah here in Baltimore, MMAE will host a reading from the Book of Maccabees when Haley Bohrer will read the same reading she chanted on her bat mitzvah Shabbat.
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Passover Haggadah from Vienna, 1930. This colorfully illustrated French and Hebrew Haggadah was published in Vienna. Caption on image: "Eating Matzah." (Photo courtesy Jewish Museum of Maryland)
Don’t ever lose hope; boundless freedom can come today just as it did one spring morning in Egypt for our ancestors.
Read MoreIn that spirit and in awareness that so many of us will be praying in synagogue for much longer than usual later this month, I want to offer two paths toward using communal prayer as a source of spiritual growth.
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