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    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    Lurking within is the Holy Urge

    Parshat Toldot 1 F WE COULD X-RAY OUR HEARTS — NOT THE fist-sized muscle, but the pulsating center from which our dreams and desires emer...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    a SLOW bURNING eXPLOSION LIKE THE sUN

    Parshat Shmot SOMETIMES, THINGS GET WORSE before they get better. Sometimes, things get worse even as they are getting better— as realit...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 3 min

    War Damage

    Parshat Naso Who fought the first religious war? The answer, according to Genesis, is Cain and Abel: "Cain brought an offering to the Lor...

    • May 11, 2019
    • 4 min

    gATEWAY OF THE pERSECUTED

    Parshat Vayetze Jacob, escaping his murderously angry brother, more or less stumbles unto "the gates of heaven," described laconically in...

    • May 6, 2019
    • 7 min

    Power to the People

    Torah' for Israel's Jubilee May 1998 (first published Jerusalem Report) For 50 years, Israelis have allowed the state to shape their iden...

    • Apr 29, 2019
    • 4 min

    Jewish Intimacy: Nitzavim VaYelech

    Losing God and Finding Him is Part of What it Means to be a Jew GOOD NEWS: WE ARE NOT THE FIRST generation to be fraught with alarm over ...

    • Apr 4, 2019
    • 1 min

    parshat hashavua

    this is about the Torah portion of the week So here will be all kinds of writings from the Torah portion of the week.

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    • May 10, 2020
    • 7 min

    Freedom, climate change and the Pandemic

    “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” So begins Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s book “The Social Contract.” I’ve been thinking abou...
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    • Dec 19, 2019
    • 5 min

    Language, Prayer, Compassion, Interpretation

    Happy Chanuka! What follows are some words of Torah that I offered on Saturday night in honor of the 25th anniversary of the passing of m...
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