> “Parshas Ki Sisa”
This week’s parsha focuses on the topic of impatience. This was a major element in the sin of the Golden Calf.
Do you know what happened? What is the golden calf?
Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13748990/ki-sisa
> “Parshas Tetzaveh”
For deaf people, the element of surprise usually catches us more often than it does for hearing people. We don’t hear people creeping up behind us, nor do we catch the knock on the door before somebody enters. This week’s parsha talks about an article of clothing worn by the Kohen Gadol, or High Priest. It was a robe, and at the bottom, there were bells…
Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13744635/tetzaveh
> “Parshas Mishpatim”
We find a commandment for judges to not accept bribes. We tend to think that this type of behavior is only found in the secretive chambers of the courthouses, but the truth is: we sometimes practice different forms of bribery in our lives, on different levels.
Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13737863/mishpatim
> “Parshas Terumah”
Did you know that there was something special about how the Menorah in the Temple was made, in contrast to the other Temple vessels?
Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/the-living-parsha/13740970/terumah
Channel 613 News: ‘Purim Basics‘
Watch a funny discussion on “Channel 613 News” of the various mitzvahs that we do on Purim.
Play video – jewishdeafmm.org/613-purim
New JDMM Project:
Jewish Deaf Personalities
JDMM says they are interviewing well-known members of our Jewish deaf community and exploring their Jewish roots. “Part History, Part Inspiration.”
They share many tales of times past and shed a new light on what it was like to grow up Jewish and deaf.
Play Video – jewishdeafmm.org/jdp-bragg
New addition to JDMM Art Gallery
Joel Scott Strauss,
The Sun Shines Upon
the Land of Israel, 2010.
Digital graphics.
7.48in X 7.48in.
As a Deaf person with skills in Total Communication, Joel Scott Strauss is active with the Deaf and Hearing Jewish communities. As a non-conventional Jew, he is involved with Cabala and Eastern Philosophy. Strauss davens actively with a Masorti Shul and occasionally with a Jewish Renewal Havurah Minyan. Strauss
