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Naso

Parshat Naso By Diane Roosth, May 31, 2014 The notion of brachot as gratitude for material, spiritual, and personal blessings is central to the priestly blessing and, I believe, also

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Shabbat HaGadol

Shabbat HaGadol By Joel Grossman, April 12, 2014 Whenever I think of Shabbat hagadol I remember a special bar mitzvah that my family attended in Miami Beach about 15 years

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Metzorah

Parsha Metzorah Barry Oppenheim, April 5, 2014 Hazing. Most of us are familiar with the concept of ‘hazing’. For those not – hazing is defined as the imposition of strenuous,

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Vayakhel

Parashat Vayakhel Tom Fields-Meyer, February 22, 2014 I used to work in an office building where there was a security guard posted in the lobby, a man I’ll call Tony.

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Tetzaveh

Tetzaveh – What is Holiness? by Salvador Litvak – Feb. 8, 2014 – 8 Adar I, 5774 Good Shabbos! Eight weeks ago, Moses entered the Torah narrative when we read

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Terumah

Terumah by Meyer Shwarzstein – Feb 1, 2014 In screenwriting class, I learned a term called Suspension of Disbelief. It means that your audience must be willing to ignore enough

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Shmini Atzeret

Shmini Atzeret 5774 Jackie, the Jews, and Ethnicity in Post-War America By Michael Berenbaum Because Jackie was the first, he played for everyone who had been denied a chance, whose

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Yom Kippur

Yom Kippur 5774 By Joel Grossman When I was visiting my mother in Israel this past summer, her brother, my uncle Shimmy, also came by to visit. My Uncle Shimmy

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Kol Nidre

Kol Nidre 5774 by Rabbi Ilana Grinblat Tonight, on the holiest night of the Jewish year, we stand before God, stripped of our comforts – without food and drink. We

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