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Can teaching of the Holy Trinity be a model for the world?

Can teaching of the Holy Trinity be a model for the world?

Is the Holy Trinity a strange and untenable doctrine of the divine or a mystery and model for earth community and hope for the world?
Wilderness holds our doubts, fears and wonder

Wilderness holds our doubts, fears and wonder

The wilderness holds our doubts, our fears, and it holds wonder. Torah in giving us these word-stories of wild places, just as Maurice Sendak knew, allows us to face into the very plagues of our existence and then turn, each one of us, to our peoples and say Yeish, yes, this is where I belong.
My lessons in detachment and reliance

My lessons in detachment and reliance

One of the benefits of becoming older is that you tend to reflect on the events in your past and how they changed the direction of your life. This process is a good learning tool to analyze your life and its direction
Serving Our Community is everyone’s moral duty

Serving Our Community is everyone’s moral duty

Volunteer service is needed now, more than ever before. Many of us already do this, but if you are looking for some helpful ideas on how to help, here are a few.
Our loved ones still live in our hearts and memories when death has parted us

Our loved ones still live in our hearts and memories when death has parted us

My husband's personality, his hopes and dreams, his talents, his love, still live on in my memory and in the stories I share with those who knew him and with some who didn’t.
Options exist in Islam for how disabled can pray

Options exist in Islam for how disabled can pray

How does a disabled person pray? What happens if a disabled person forgets prayer lines or jumbles these up? Does the Divine accept a disabled prayer?
May is Canadian Jewish Heritage Month

May is Canadian Jewish Heritage Month

Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue is pleased to present talks by Amber Woods and Dr. Brian Pollick on Sunday, May 19 at 2:00 pm. Both talks take place at Congregation Emanu-El Synagogue, 1461 Blanshard Street, Victoria V8W 2J3.
Showing reverence for Mothers and Mothering

Showing reverence for Mothers and Mothering

Celebrating Mother’s Day is a way to affirm our earthly mothers and the work of passing a good life on to children, to gardens,  to students and books, to small groups and large organizations.
Passover lesson: helping all escape their ‘narrow place’

Passover lesson: helping all escape their ‘narrow place’

The lesson of the Passover can translate for everyone as an urging to humanity to find ways to leave the increasingly narrow place of our opinions and beliefs for a wider view, and expand our efforts to help one another
Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Commemoration Event

Yom HaShoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) Commemoration Event

Sunday, May 5th, 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM at the Victoria Jewish Cemetery