Sarah Rindner

Nov 7, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Sarah Rindner

In Chaim Potok’s classic novel My Name Is Asher Lev, a young Chasidic boy tries to integrate his religious faith with his prodigious artistic talent. In school he scribbles on the margins of his sacred books. On weekends he takes clandestine trips to view Renaissance art at the Brooklyn Museum. Throughout the novel he grapples with the question: Is art something that brings us closer to G-d and to the Jewish people, or does it operate on another plane entirely?

Jun 7, 2024 | mosaicmagazine.com | Sarah Rindner

Print Email Kindle On Tuesday night, the festival of Shavuot begins, on which the book of Ruth is traditionally read. This book tells the story of a Moabite widow who throws in her lot with the Jewish people, marries a Judean noble, and becomes the ancestress of King David and his dynasty. To kabbalists, this holiday is associated with the divine emanation of malkhut (meaning “kingdom” or “kingship”), which signifies God’s immanence and the connection point between the Godhead and the...

May 6, 2024 | momentmag.com | Sarah Rindner

Walk the streets of Israel post-October 7 and one experiences a country transformed. This transformation manifests in many aspects of our lives: our political allegiances, our sense of certainty and security, and our attitudes toward one another. But our streets have also literally, physically, been transformed. Cars are bedecked in Israeli flags and bumper stickers that commemorate fallen loved ones and friends.

Jan 10, 2024 | lubavitch.com | Sarah Rindner

Anatoly Kaplan: The Enchanted ArtistBeit Avi Chai Gallery, JerusalemIn a gray, dimly lit room, a mother ties a red kerchief atop her daughter’s school dress. Behind them, even more deeply in shadow, sits a bearded man wrapped in a traditional black and white tallit, bent over a prayerbook.

Oct 19, 2023 | mosaicmagazine.com | Sarah Rindner

On a beautiful Thursday during the middle days of Sukkot, my family took a day trip to the Golan Heights. We visited a newly developed national park called Sussita, which contains the ruins of the ancient Graeco-Roman city Hippos. It was also the site of a daring defeat of Syrian troops by ordinary residents of the nearby Kibbutz Ein Gev in Israel’s War of Independence. The site’s vivid explanatory movie had my older children mesmerized, but afterwards they started to ask questions.