Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Writing Our Own Story -- Sermon for Rosh Hashanah 5776

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There is an old joke about David Ben Gurion debating with some of his inner circle whether or not to declare the statehood of Israel upon t...
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. ...