In the news

1.Just in time for the three trick and treating angels in this week's parasha:
WASHINGTON - Those things that go bump in the night? About one-third of people believe they could be ghosts.


And nearly one out of four, 23 percent, say they've actually seen a ghost or felt its presence, finds a pre-Halloween poll by The Associated Press and Ipsos.
One is Misty Conrad, who says she fled her rented home in Syracuse, Ind., after her daughter began talking to an unseen girl named Nicole and neighbors said children had been murdered in the house. That was after the TV and lights began flicking on at night

2. I reported yesterday about the Sabbatical controversy regarding Israel and the Rabbis and the land. Yesterday the Israel Supreme Court clamped down on the fantatics, forbidding the Chief rabbinate to allow local Rabbinic jurisdictions to disallow the long standing ruling of allowing the land to be sold. Its complicated, but its a victory for religious moderation, common sense and modernity over fantaticism and throwback Judaism.

My Videos on this week's portion Vayera on youtube
Is it ever ok to fib? Jewu 267
Genesis 22 a close reading of the binding of isaacjewu 193
Torah Portion Vayera-the binding of Isaac jewu 62

High Holiday Bible readings jewu 153