Joshua Berman

2 months ago | elevationoutdoors.com | Joshua Berman

By Joshua BermanJanuary 28, 2025 — At 5 years old, Bellamy Korn, of Timnath, Colorado, was diagnosed with leukemia, stepping onto a path few of us could imagine walking. As the treatments began, Bellamy’s mother, Sarah Bailey, looked for ways to infuse health and positivity into their new journey—she chose hiking. Sarah and Bellamy set a goal to complete 100 hikes.

Dec 31, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Joshua Berman

As a school child, I hated dikduk – biblical grammar. I remember the head-scratcher Ms. Korach taught us about personal pronouns. “She” in Hebrew is he. And “he” in Hebrew is hu. But, sometimes, Ms. Korach explained, the same letters always used to write hu – heh, vav, aleph, could be used to spell the feminine he, violating every spelling rule she had taught us. And, to boot, she told us, this unusual spelling of the feminine pronoun he as if it were hu is found only in the Torah.

Sep 30, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Joshua Berman

Print Email Kindle On Saturday night, Ashkenazi Jews began reciting the pre-Rosh Hashanah penitential prayers known as slihot.

Sep 22, 2024 | qoshe.com | Joshua Berman

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Sep 22, 2024 | blogs.timesofisrael.com | Joshua Berman

The selichot prayers we begin this weekend portray Israel through an image fraught with resonance for us after the trauma of last October 7thMass rape is not simply a savage act of lust but a sinister strategy of dominance, a brutal inscription of power onto the very flesh of a community. It shatters not just the lives of its victims but the soul of a people, branding their collective identity with the searing mark of degradation. This our enemies sought to do to us a year ago.