Scripture Reading for February 9, 2019
Torah: Exodus 25:1-27:19 “Terumah”, (Contribution … ) Haftorah: I Kings 5:12- 6:13 New Testament: II Corinthians 9:1-15 Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37 “Gedarecha” (Your Oaths … )
Suicidal Jews
By Joan Swirsky— When individuals kill themselves, we look for answers in their DNA, their environments, their personal reactions to feelings of impotent rage, rejection, disappointment, heartbreak. But how to explain group suicide? Wikipedia lists numerous cases, starting in 206 B.C., and these relatively recent cases: In 1943, in the final phase of the Warsaw…