Friday, July 31, 2015

אוֹי-נָא לָנוּ כִּי חָטָאנוּ -- Woe unto us, for we have sinned (Lamentations 5:16)

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I went to sleep last night distressed because an Israeli man who wears the garb of a pious Jew stabbed six participants in the Jerusalem G...
Friday, July 17, 2015

Mexico and the Iranian Nuclear Agreement

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Keleigh, Berkeleigh and I returned late Tuesday night from a week’s vacation in Mexico. Our trip was planned well before my recent illness ...
Friday, April 3, 2015

Passover Thoughts -- Indiana and Elsewhere

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Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. famously said that “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends towards justice.” As Jews, we can take p...
Friday, March 6, 2015

A Report from the AIPAC Policy Conference

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   Earlier this week I was one of 16,000 attendees at the annual Policy Conference of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee. ...
Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The Uneaten TV Dinner

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I n the last few days there has been quite a kerfuffle in the Jewish press and blogs about United Synagogue Youth's International Conven...
Sunday, September 28, 2014

Rosh Hashanah Sermon: Current Thoughts on Israel

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Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon RH 5775 Kehilat Shalom Rabbi Charles L. Arian This morning we read in the Torah of God’s fulfillment ...
Wednesday, August 20, 2014

Israel Trip, Day Three

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Shalom from Jerusalem. The day started on a bit of an odd note as we compared notes on the Red Alert earlier that morning. It might help...