Rabbi Suson on Tisha B'Av
07/29/2020 12:00:00 AM
Parashat Devarim
07/24/2020 12:00:00 AM
Pirkei Avot & Eretz Yisrael
07/19/2020 12:00:00 AM
Parashat Matot-Masei
07/16/2020 12:00:00 AM
How do you say Corona in Hebrew?
07/14/2020 12:00:00 AM
Jews in the Civil War
06/30/2020 12:00:00 AM
Did the Story of the Wood Gatherer Violate the Rule of Law?
06/19/2020 10:55:44 AM
Rabbi Suson on the 2020 Census & Parashat Bamidbar
05/22/2020 03:12:10 PM
Shavua Tov!
05/16/2020 10:25:20 PM
Shamai Discusses Parashat Bhar-Bechukotai
05/15/2020 01:00:53 PM
A Parasha of Quarantine and Isolation : Torah Reading Tazria-Metzora
04/24/2020 11:42:34 AM
Parashat Tazria-Metzora 5780
04/24/2020 11:08:38 AM
Communicating in Close Quarters : Parashat Shemini 5780
04/17/2020 02:53:05 PM
A Preventable Death? Torah reading Parashat Shemini
04/17/2020 02:52:39 PM
Let the Light In - Parashat Noach 5780
11/01/2019 01:14:25 PM
Yom Kippur 5780
10/08/2019 11:38:21 AM
The Kitchener Camp: When Britain Welcomed 4,000 German Jews
07/02/2019 12:42:53 PM
Irmgard Brill was pregnant with her first child, and she was terrified. Nazis had burned down the synagogue, violence reigned in the streets, and she and her husband Walter had been forced to hide in the home of a friend. After years of increasing abuse and discrimination against Jews in Germany, this horrific night focused their dilemma. Irmgard must have wondered if they should stay in their hometown of Munich, Germany. And if...Read more...
Rabbi and Kids Prepare for Passover Seder
04/19/2019 11:01:58 AM
The Taming of Mt. Kilimanjaro and Frank Solomon
11/05/2018 07:02:48 PM
Mount Kilimanjaro is the tallest mountain on the African continent and the highest free-standing mountain in the world. It contains almost every kind of ecological system on earth: cultivated land, rain forest, heath, moorland, alpine desert and an arctic summit. At a colossal 19,341 feet, Mt. Kilimanjaro is one of the largest volcanoes to ever break through the earth’s crust. Hemingway made the mountain a...Read more...
Shabbat Hazon, Devarim, Tisha B'Av, Tu B'Av 5778
07/20/2018 12:35:46 PM
by Abigail Leibowitz
Featured in this week's WJW!
If you Google “Jamaica images” you get sparkling beaches, white sRead more...
Kol Ish in Concert
05/15/2018 03:18:19 AM
Kol Ish Live in Concert - Beatbox
02/08/2018 11:45:49 PM
TERRORISM EXPERT SHEDS LIGHT ON US-ISRAEL COLLABORATION
02/08/2018 09:00:07 AM
Did you know the U.S. government’s first official counterterrorism office was created in response to an attack on Israelis? In fact, many of the components of the U.S. responses to terrorism were prompted by developments affecting Israel.
During his Shabbat morning guest lecture on Jan. 27, Michael Kraft, a 19-year veteran of the U.S. State Department’s counterterrorism office, shared these and many other insights about about...Read more...
Sen. Cardin Urges Jews to Speak Up Against Bias and Injustice
12/17/2017 08:10:16 PM
A World View Shaped from a Small Town Jewish Perspective
12/08/2017 02:11:22 PM
by Daniel S. Mariaschin, B'nai Brith Executive VP & HTAA Past President
In 1955, just before I entered the first grade, we moved from Englewood, New Jersey, to Swanzey, New...Read more...
A TALE OF TWO COVENANTS
11/16/2017 04:44:58 PM
Silver Spring historian Professor David Rotenstein was the latest lecturer in Congregation Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim’s adult education series.
Today we think of Silver Spring, Maryland, as a very Jewish area, but this wasn’t always the case. In reality, Jews were banned from living in Silver Spring for decades as a result of restrictive residency covenants and land-use laws explicitly prohibiting the sale of property to specific...Read more...
Congressman Jaime Raskin's visit to HTAA!
10/18/2017 03:12:19 PM
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Read more...AT HAR TZEON-AGUDATH ACHIM, CONGRESSMAN SHARES INFLUENCE OF HIS JEWISH IDENTITY ON HIS PUBLIC LIFE
09/28/2017 01:35:01 PM
Jews may be “People of the Book,” but Congressman Jamie Raskin (D – Md.) believes in putting words into action to help make the world a better place. That was one of the messages the new representative for Maryland’s 8th District had for the packed audience at Har Tzeon-Agudath Achim in Silver Spring, Maryland, on Sept. 23, Shabbat Shuva.
The former American University law professor and veteran Maryland state legislator said...Read more...
THE RIGHTEOUS RAILWAY WORKERS OF LILLE, FRANCE: A LOCAL CONNECTION FROM ROSH HASHANAH, 1942
09/14/2017 01:37:02 PM
My mother, Perla Brandriss, often mentioned to us as children that it was Erev Rosh Hashanah, 1942, that the Nazis came to take her parents. They and their two youngest children were rounded up and taken to the railway station in their home town of Lille, France, together with many of the city’s other Polish Jews, to be sent to their deaths at Auschwitz.
Erev Rosh Hashanah that year fell on September 11, the date on which, 59 years...Read more...