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A Path Back to Our Humanity-Thoughts on the last week
By any measure this past week was very difficult, even by recent standards. I do not need to go into details, but we also have to remember all the people who suffered challenges on a smaller and more… more →
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A Path Back to Our Humanity-Thoughts on the last week
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wrote 1 month ago: By any measure this past week was very difficult, even by recent standards. I do not need to go into … more →
We have never left Israel
wrote 6 months ago: Every Friday afternoon in Jerusalem a siren goes off to let people know that Shabbat is soon startin … more →
My Yom Kippur sermon on Forgiveness
wrote 7 months ago: Here is my sermon on Forgiveness from Yom Kippur. It should be pretty clear, but it is more in outli … more →
My Rosh Hashana Sermon on Happiness
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wrote 8 months ago: These are the notes from my sermon on Rosh Hashana on happiness. They are not really in essay form, … more →
Our lives are the material of great art.
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wrote 8 months ago: In 1913 Marcel Duchamp attached a bicycle wheel to a stool. He was not making a new kind of unicycle … more →
Be Here Now for the Holidays
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wrote 8 months ago: We say a special psalm everyday in the month before Rosh hashanah and through the last days of Sukko … more →
Are You A True Christian?
wrote 10 months ago: To be a Christian is more than just to believe, For even the devils believe and tremble… (But … more →
The commencement speech Moses never gave
wrote 11 months ago: I have been fortunate to have attended a lot of graduation ceremonies lately. They are wonderful e … more →
My Tribute to Maurice Sendak
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wrote 1 year ago: My first and greatest theatrical performance was as a tree in the Einstein elementary school product … more →
How to avoid being consumed by the destructive decisions of others-My words from Shabbat
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wrote 1 year ago: Shmini 2012 One of the most painful and challenging stories in the Torah is that of strange death … more →
The Courage to Compromise-How to bring redemption to the world or at least enjoy the people at your Seder
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wrote 1 year ago: This past Shabbat was Shabbat HaGadol. Literally “The Great Shabbat” that occurs the week before Pas … more →
Jesus is the Only Way
wrote 1 year ago: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, is the only way to eternity. If any one tells you otherwise, he has be … more →
You don't have to be an angel to build God a house-My sermon from Shabbat
wrote 1 year ago: Terumah 2012 A few years ago I was leading a tour for people who had never been to Israel. At the en … more →
Loving the stranger even when the stranger is us.
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wrote 1 year ago: I used to assume that all the slaves who came out of Egypt knew each other. I would imagine them … more →
A guide to making Friends with the Prayerbook-an overview of our first session and an invitation to the next.
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wrote 1 year ago: This is part one of a guide to making friends with the Siddur, the Jewish Prayer Book. We will be co … more →
Our Past is Not Our Destiny
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wrote 1 year ago: This last Thursday night I had my first and likely last experience singing in a Broadway type musica … more →
Why are Jews called Jews?
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wrote 1 year ago: If you were to ask most characters in the Torah that we think of as Jews whether they were Jews, t … more →
The struggle against "Same Old, Same Old"-The last nights of Chanukah
wrote 1 year ago: Everyone loves the first days of chanukah. Children are excited by what gifts they may get. Pa … more →
What we really celebrate on Chanukah
wrote 1 year ago: For most of Jewish history we were lived on pretty modest means. The average meal was some kind o … more →
