Lori Rosenstock Lori joined the Machane TBA Professional Staff team in 2019 to provide administrative assistance, including maintaining the website, parent communications and other office support. Prior to this, she was an Executive Assistant in International Lodging at Marriott International for 18 years. Lori enjoys photography, reading and spending time at her […]
Re’eh – 5780 Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17 This week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Re’eh tells us “If there is a needy person among you, one of your kin in any of your settlements in the land that the Eternal your God is giving you, do not harden your heart and shut your hand against your needy kin. Rather […]
Va’Etchanan – 5780 Deuteronomy 3:23 – 7:11 This week’s parasha contains some of the biggest moments of Torah: a recap of the Ten Commandments, the Shema and the V’Ahavta are all here! Usually, rabbis can’t stop writing about the various layers of wisdom woven throughout these passages, and I am no exception. However, this year, […]
Devarim – 5780 Deuteronomy 1:1 – 3:22 George Bernard Shaw once quipped: “For those who can’t do, teach.” Since the moment he first uttered these words (if not earlier), many westerners have judged teachers as those who failed to succeed at their chosen professions – as if teaching itself was not a noble and […]
Gan Ami School Forms Forms for Prospective Families School Inquiry Form School Registration Registration Procedures (An Overview on ShulCloud Set Up/Registration) Set up a ShulCloud Account (For New Families) Complete Online Registration(For Returning Families/Those with a ShulCloud Account) Required Annual Forms FILLED OUT FOR ALL CHILDREN (except Kofim) These forms must be filled out for […]
Mattot/Masei – 5780 Numbers 30:2 – 36:13 The moment had arrived. Assembled near the Eastern bank of the Jordan river, their forty years of wandering almost complete, our ancestors began preparations to finally enter and settle the Promised Land. What a surprise it must have been for Moses when a delegation from Reuben and Gad, […]
Pinchas – 5780 Numbers 25:10 – 30:1 This week’s Torah portion has a lot of anger. That is, as Rabbi Pamela Wax teaches (1), five different expressions and types of anger are woven into the parasha, and in essence, serve as a unifying theme. Here are just three: The portion opens with a murder, […]
Chukkat/Balak -5780 (for our new and departing board members) Numbers 19:1 – 25:9 Let’s talk about miracles. When we think about miracles, we tend to think of God, but in Chukkat, it is Moses who performs the miracle. Here is the story: Miriam (Moses’ sister) was a water diviner, and for close to forty years […]
