Thursday, August 20, 2015

Why I'm Not Giving a Sermon about Iran on the High Holidays

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I’ve never quite understood the expectation that rabbis talk about current issues in the news during their Shabbat and High Holiday sermons...
Friday, August 7, 2015

Masada or Yavneh?

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One of my favorite texts in all of rabbinic literature is Avot D’Rabbi Natan 4:21 , the tale of a discussion between Rabbi Joshua and Rabba...
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...