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Parshat Bechukotai: “What a Few Can Do”

Whenever we get to this parshah I always enjoy the bad math employed to show just how successful the Jews will be in defeating their...

Parshat Behar, "Missing the Point"

At the end of this parshah, the Jewish people are told to help their fellow Israelites who become poor. Then we are told right after that...

Rabbinical Assembly Statement on Reproductive Freedom

This Shabbat, Rabbi Benson will discuss the Rabbinical Assembly's statement on Alabama's new state law on abortion, the law itself, and...

NSJC Judaica Shop - May & June are celebration months

Celebrate with a gift from our Judaica Shop! Many Weddings and Bar/Bat Mitzvah’s Mother’s Day is May 12, 2019 Father’s Day is June 16,...

Parshat Kedoshim – “The Meaning of Holiness"

People don’t like to hear it much less think this way, but I tend to believe it is true that we should expect life not to be particularly...

Acharei Mot – “After Death, Congregants & Rabbis”

The parshah’s name this week couldn’t be more apt: after death. It refers to the deaths of Aaron’s sons the priest Nadav and Avihu, and...

Message From NSJC About the Tragedy in Sri Lanka

A message from North Shore Jewish Center and Rabbi Arron Benson about the Easter Sunday attacks in Sri Lanka... Yet again the collective...

Message from Rabbi Benson About Notre-Dame

The blessing to say over something truly inspiring made by human hands is, "may it be God's will that the Divine Presence should rest in...

Ask Good Questions!

Rabbi Aaron Benson is sharing some items from his Passover "to do" list. See below for his post on the four questions. In some haggadah I...

Bedikat Chametz – Searching for Chametz

It is a traditional custom to make a symbolic search of the house on the night before Passover begins. At this point, the house should be...

Join Us For a Pesach Seder Led by Rabbi Aaron Benson

Come to North Shore Jewish Center for a traditional Seder experience. Enjoy insight, tradition and song with your your Seder meal. We...

Important Passover Information at NSJC

Please see below for important dates and information about 2019 Pesach 5780. 1st Seder, Friday, 4/19 – Community Seder at NSJC, 7:30pm...

2 for Seder: Pushing Back On Anti-Semitism with Love and Matzah!

Holding or attending a Seder? Invite two friends or acquaintances who have never attended a Seder to join and participate. Anti-semitism...

#MeToo with Rabbi Benson

Did Jezebel get a bad rap? Was Eve's intentions just misunderstood? According to Rabbi Benson, we might want to reconsider some of the...