Love of Jewish Music by Ruthie Seidner
Jewish music. It pulled me in, heart first, and it’s been part of the blood that flows through my body ever since I was a child. Although I am a trained classical singer, my interests were always in folk music. It appealed to my love of history, and folk minstrels always were the commentators in every age for the common folk. There was a truth in every song. My first guitar was given to me by my dad in 1967, and I was hooked. I harmonized with every song on the radio and lear
Yitro + Colleyville
This week we come to the Torah portion of Yitro - my Bat Mitzvah portion, circa 1998. You may not know this section by name, but I am certain you are familiar with the contents. In fact, it’s so famous they’ve even made movies about it. Yitro is full of drama and intrigue! Billowing down the mountain with clouds, thunder and lightning, God commands Moses to ascend Sinai and bestows on him what many would consider to be the cornerstones of our faith. The Ten Commandments. Bein
From Parashat B’shallach
“Fear is a powerfully creative force. Every great invention and every intellectual advance has behind it as a part of its motivation the desire to escape some dreaded thing. The fear of darkness caused man to discover the secret of electricity. The fear of pain led to the marvelous discoveries of medical science. The fear of ignorance was one reason that man built great institutions of learning. The fear of war was one of the forces behind the birth of the United Nations. Ang
