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A Passover Triptych: Miriam’s Death and Yahrzeit

21.04.2024 20

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Clothing Makes the Man and Woman: Parshat Tzav

29.03.2024 20

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The Importance of Volunteering: Parshat Terumah

16.02.2024 20

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Laws for Lawless Leaders: Mishpatim

09.02.2024 10

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Let My Soldiers Go: Parshat Vaera

11.01.2024 20

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The Danger of Forgiving and Forgetting

29.12.2023 20

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For Whom the Bell Tolls: Time is Running Out

15.12.2023 30

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A Road Trip from Hell: Rebekah Escapes her Past

MY FIRST BLOG It’s hard to believe that this is my 70th blog. I began to write in the time period between Shavuot and Tisha B’Av. Out of...

10.11.2023 20

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Hope and Hospitality in Parshat Va-Yera

This week I am without words בלי מילים—beli milim.  That is an expression we hear over and over as more and more people—including Knesset...

03.11.2023 10

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Lech Lecha and Liminality

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to our forefather Abram, in light of what is happening now in our country with all of our internal migrations: We...

27.10.2023 10

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Command Centers (חמ”ל), Compassion (חמלה) and Chamas (חמס)

Three weeks ago, when the war broke out, I kept on hearing people talking about chamal –חמל—and didn’t quite understand what it was. I...

27.10.2023 20

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To Be or Not to Be: Noah and the Existential Question

To write a blog or not to write a blog, that is the question. The more I think about it, the more I realize that I write the blogs as much for myself...

20.10.2023 20

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Will it be with God’s Help that We Win this War? Parshat Bereshit

I sat at my computer for 10 minutes and all I managed to write was OY!  I called my daughter and shared my plight with her and she said, “Imma, I...

11.10.2023 40

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Correspondence and Personal Eulogy for Alice Shalvi

I just this minute, heard about the death of my friend and mentor, Professor Alice Shalvi. This Correspondence from 2007 speaks for itself. From:...

02.10.2023 20

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Pray, Eat, and Be Happy on Sukkot

On Sukkot, we are commanded to be happy–ve-samachta be-hagecha. It is the only holiday in which this is so. The question is what is there about...

29.09.2023 20

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The Two Sons of Aaron and Abraham: Acharei Mot

With the opening Torah reading of Yom Kippur we come full circle following the stories about Abraham’s sacrifice of his two sons Ishmael and Isaac...

22.09.2023 10

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Should Abraham, Sarah, and Hagar Do Teshuva?

Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) is a topic that is surfacing now in Israel with the 50th anniversary of the Yom Kippur War of 1973. Just last...

14.09.2023 10

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Hide and Seek: Parshat Nitzavim-Vayelech

At the beginning of parshat nitzavim-vayelkh, God renews the covenant with his people. The covenant will be binding, not only for those who are...

08.09.2023 20

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