WESTFIELD — For nearly 10 years, Tom Ham hauled a handmade wooden altar around North Carolina in his trailer, using it at Christian leadership meetings organized by the Episcopal Diocese ...

We would make an altar and arrange the skulls and flowers around it. But this year, both of my boys are in middle school and they don’t want me hanging around and talking to their classmates.

The Torah informs us that the Ark (Aron-Exodus 25:11), the Table (Shulhan –Exodus 25:24) and the Altar of Incense (Mizbeiah Miktar Ketoret – Exodus 30:3) were all decorated with rims. W… ...