Monday, October 30, 2017

Parashat Lech Lecha: #MeToo and the Sister/Wife Motif

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Me too. Those are the words we're hearing and seeing again and again these few weeks. Girls. Women. Mom's. Grandmas. Black, whit...
Saturday, September 30, 2017

Kol Nidre 5778--Reflections on Teshuvah

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Below follows my Erev Yom Kippur Sermon for 5778.  Tomorrow, thousands of people will gather in a communal act of love and justice. Act...
Friday, September 22, 2017

Rosh Hashanah Morning 5778 (2017): Becoming a Rodef Shalom, a Pursuer of Peace

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In the village where I grew up, down the street from the home-made ice cream place and the library, across the street from the playground w...

Erev Rosh Hashanah 5778/2017: How Do We Talk (About Israel) With Each Other?

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It was a hot day this past July, and it looked like the Old City of Jerusalem was going to explode. A few days before, three Israeli Arabs ...
Wednesday, August 23, 2017

Blogging Elul: Rosh Chodesh, Shoftim and choosing to Act

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In the summer of 1958, Groucho Marx took his daughter Melinda, friend Robert Duan and Robert’s daughter Judy for a six week trip to Europe,...
Saturday, August 12, 2017

Charlottesville, Eikev and Being In The Camp Bubble

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I've been at Camp Harlam as faculty for the last week now. It's been amazing, as always, working with my unit and their staff, being...
Friday, July 21, 2017

Parashat Mattot: Seeing The Other

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The ad took up a full page in the newspaper. A prayer, a Jewish prayer, for soldiers going off to war, presented by the religious leader ...