From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Thinking this morning about the new year. I really sense a difference in the attitude of most people...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer I love words … big ones, little ones, long ones, short ones, verbs and adverbs, nouns and adjectives, I...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Today, I came across a lovely teaching on Hanukkah. From Chasidic rabbis in Jerusalem, it connects the...

I'm thinking about royalty today. And parenthood. I just finished some research on King Josiah and his great-grandfather, King Hezekiah....

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer I love Thanksgiving. It’s got everything: that wonderful anticipation of something special when you wake up...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer I t’s hard to believe that the High Holidays are nearly over for another year. It seems like yesterday that...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Yom Kippur is the holiest and most awesome of all the days of the Jewish year. It is a period of fasting...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer The month of Elul has passed; Jews and Christians worldwide are welcoming the New Year as we enter the...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer In his book, 60 Days: A Spiritual Guide to the High Holidays, author Simon Jacobson has this to say as Elul...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer The month of Elul is known as the gateway to the month of Tishrei, when the High Holidays (Rosh HaShanah,...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer On the Jewish calendar, we are now into the month of Elul, a time of getting our “accounts” in order and...

The following two paragraphs are taken from an article I recently wrote for the Dispatch from Jerusalem, Bridge for Peace’s bi-monthly...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer The Sermon on the Mount is a beautiful, poetic portion of Scripture found in the Gospel of Matthew. As I...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer I just came across this short article that I wrote and posted in 2021. I love the story and it seems very...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Love is an enigma. You know, one of those mysterious things that somehow, we can’t define, or even...

From the Desk of Steven Hauer Did you know that anxiety and depression are on the rise the world over, across all demographics and age...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer We’ve heard it again and again. The events of October 7 are indelibly imprinted on the minds of countless...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer When we moved to Jerusalem 16 years ago, the Lord blessed us with an amazing place to live, a lovely...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Rain…again??? In my little corner of the world, it has been raining for days. As evening draws near, it has...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer There are three Hebrew words that are translated wisdom in the Bible. They are chokma, binah, and da-at....

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Information for Discussing Israel’s War with Hamas Few people actually understand the issues that have led...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Proclaiming passages of Scripture is a powerful form of prayer. Our words have power and when we make His...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer One more trip to Israel! So, how many has it been? Seventy-five? More? And if you count the ten years that...

From the Desk of Cheryl Hauer Some thoughts as we approach Rosh Hashannah which begins at sunset Sunday evening, September 25. All eyes...