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Sefirat Ha’omer and Transformations

May 30, 2014by shalommorris 1 Comment

The mitzvah of Sefirat Haomer, is the counting of days and weeks from Pesah to Shavuot.  More precisely though, the count is not from Pesah but from the Omer offering, […]

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Torah

Polonies Talmud Torah School – New York

May 1, 2014by shalommorris 1 Comment

The position of Educational Director at Shearith Israel (Manhattan, New York) includes a variety of responsibilities.  The aspect that I was most intrigued about when interviewing was that of Hebrew School principal. Prior to […]

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Musings, Travels

Chatham Square Cemetery – New York

April 23, 2014by shalommorris 6 Comments

The most deeply meaningful service that I’ve conducted as a rabbi at Shearith Israel is the annual memorial service at the congregation’s colonial-era cemetery.  I had the pleasure of conducting […]

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Travels

Hebrew School Curricula

March 26, 2014by shalommorris 1 Comment

I first realized how much can be accomplished at Hebrew School when I became principal of Shearith Israel’s ‘Polonies Talmud Torah School‘ five years ago.  I saw that it is possible to […]

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Musings

Santa Fe, New Mexico

January 12, 2014by shalommorris 4 Comments

How I came to teach a class at Congregation Kol Beramah in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a story which kind of spans 400 years, but more personally, the past […]

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Travels

Hebrew School Education

December 17, 2013by shalommorris 2 Comments

I love being a Hebrew school principal. In 2009, I became the principal of the Hebrew School of Congregation Shearith Israel, the Polonies Talmud Torah School (I’ll write more about […]

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Musings

Belmonte, Trancoso and Guarda

December 1, 2013by shalommorris 5 Comments

I had no idea what to expect when I planned to spend Shabbat in the almost mythical Converso community of Belmonte, but what I experienced I won’t ever forget. There, […]

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Travels

Mekor Haim Synagogue, Porto

November 27, 2013by shalommorris 1 Comment

In my mind, Portugal has been one of those place that Jews left, and not where Jews go. But here I am arriving. My three hour plus layover in Lisbon, […]

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Travels

Returning to Portugal

November 24, 2013by shalommorris 3 Comments

On Wednesday, November 27, 2013, I return to Portugal. Well, return might not be the right right word, as I’ve never been there before, and as far as I know, […]

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Travels

Gomez Mill House

November 20, 2013by shalommorris 1 Comment

Before even starting my first day at Shearith Israel, I set out to connect with its past, in August of 2009.  And that I did with an excursion up the […]

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Travels

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