Rabbi Sharon Cohen Anisfeld

Community Blog Speaking Torah: Hesed is at the heart of our work as educators, cantors, and as rabbis

This week, I had the privilege of attending the Jewish Education Innovation Chal...

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Community Blog Speaking Torah: We who are the gardeners are also the garden

This season of the Omer, when we literally count the days from Passover to Shavu...

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Community Blog Speaking Torah: Our Children Are Leading the Way

Last Shabbat, in cities across the United States, hundreds and hundreds of thous...

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Community Blog Speaking Torah: “Betzalel came and healed the wound.”

Last week’s parsha, Ki Tisa, recounts what is quite possibly the lowest moment...

Community Blog Speaking Torah: Mi Yodea. Who knows?

I have come to believe that the most important verse in the entire megillah—th...

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Community Blog Speaking Torah: The Capacity to Understand

The command—not to oppress the stranger—is rooted in our own experience of s...