Samhain
It’s that time of year again. Jewish newspapers and magazines around the country are writing stories about the growing phenomenon of Jewitches. Most of the articles have the standard cast of characters — interviews with Jewitches reassuring people they are not evil and responses from horrified or open-minded, yet skeptical, Rabbis. What so many of [...]
I originally wrote this on Halloween 2003 Someone asked me what I was doing on Halloween, especially considering that it falls on Shabbat this year. Even though Halloween/Samhain isn’t really part of my spiritual practice, I became curious about what the Torah portion for this Shabbat is. It turns out that it is The Flood [...]
