“Beautiful Fool”
As January approaches each year, a song percolates up through my consciousness and I pull up on my computer, and listen to, several recorded versions of it . It [...]
Soup-er Bowl Sunday Lunch Fundraiser for Falmouth Service Center
Soup-er Bowl Sunday Lunch Fundraiser for Falmouth Service Center Sunday, January 26, Noon - 1:30 P.M. Step in from the cold, and come in for a delicious meal of [...]
Jewish Cookbook Club: The Cuisine of Italy’s Jews
FJC Jewish Cookbook Club: Exploring the Cuisine of Italy's Jews Tuesday, January 14 at Noon This session is open to the public. Please RSVP. This event is free of [...]
Upper Cape Interfaith Alliance Offers Three-Part Exploration of the Sabbath
Upper Cape Interfaith Alliance Hosts Three-Part Exploration of the Sabbath Thursdays, January 9, 16 and 23 at 7pm (the final session includes a potluck dinner and begins at 6:30pm) [...]
Nechemta (consolation)
The Shabbat following Tisha B’Av, that summer date commemorating the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, is known as “Shabbat Nachamu.” The name is taken from the opening word [...]
FJC Hosts a Free Community Christmas Dinner, 2-4pm
FJC Hosts a Free Community Christmas Dinner Wednesday, December 25, 2-4pm Falmouth Jewish Congregation is pleased to announce that it will host its first community Christmas dinner from 2-4pm [...]
Narrow Bridge
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov (1772 - 1810) was the great-grandson of the Baal Shem Tov. In his short life he became one of the most creative, influential and profound [...]
We can all use some “hygge”!
OCTOBER Robert Frost O hushed October morning mild, Thy leaves have ripened to the fall; Tomorrow’s wind, if it be wild, Should waste them all. The crows above the [...]
The 11th Commandment
Describing Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (z”l), Krista Tippet, host of On Being, writes: “A mystic, a 20th-century religious intellectual, a social change agent, Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel marched alongside [...]
David’s Old Silver Swim
[I am pleased to relinquish my column-space this month to my friend and FJC member Dr. Mike Fishbein, who has an important message to share about another friend and [...]