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Miriam Dreiblatt, architectural designer. The Restorative Justice Community Center in Middletown, CT. The community center serves Middletown residents in addition to providing space for Restorative Justice practice, an alternative to the traditional judicial system where crime victims and perpetrators participate in mediated conflict resolution. In development with local advocacy organizations, the layered design embeds the circle process and support rooms within the public space to expose community members to Restorative Justice; yet, ensures the participants’ privacy by obscuring the rooms’ entryways and orienting the view toward the outside. The building reinterprets Middletow
Rabbi Nahum Sarna calls this parasha the “hinge of the Torah” because it contains the revelation of the
Ten Commandments at Sinai (and so to each of us everytime we read it). In popular imagination, the Ten Commandments were given to the Israelites on tablets of stone.
True and not true. The first revelation came to us by “voice”, in words, as is clear in this chapter. And this is critical to understanding the The Commandments themselves:
they are written in stone but can only be understood when we listen.
They, by themselves, are inert. Our human capacity to listen, to learn, to understand and, ultimately, to act, brings them to life and into our lives.
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Leonard Whiting cast as Benjamin in Joseph: the mini-series Part 2.
Parasha Mi-Ketz מקץ : Joseph, the mini-series part 2 (“From Prisoner to Prime Minister…and the Brothers arrive in Egypt!”)
The screenplay part 2: synopsis
Part 2 of our mini-series finds our hero in prison, forgotten by the “cupbearer” (the palace wine director). He is rescued and brought to the palace when Pharoah (the king or president) has disturbing dreams and the wine director remembers that Joseph interpreted his (the wine director’s) dreams perfectly. Pharoahs’ dreams are disturbing indeed. The second part of the episode brings our camera to Canaan and Jacob’s family. Jacob is