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June 16, 2013
6:56 am

To A Young Jew: Why Israel Matters

Dear____________, Thank you for speaking with me concerning your personal struggles about Israel and Zionism. You could have dismissed me as a blind Jewish loyalist of an older generation......

June 9, 2013
3:00 am

After the trauma, sex

With the summer upon us and the high holy days looming early on the horizon this year, I am already contemplating starting the Torah reading cycle again, particularly the......

June 2, 2013
3:08 pm

The Spiritual Paradox Of Lightning

I learned a few months ago not to mess with Israeli kids who grew up in the Mamlakhti-Dati (state religious school) system. I teach a course on Jewish......

May 24, 2013
6:02 am

The New Toeivah (Abomination)

As reported in the American Jewish press over the past several months, Yeshiva University in New York is now conducting an internal investigation into two former rabbis......

May 19, 2013
6:57 pm

Teaching Children The Music Of The Soul

Each year in May, my synagogue hosts a concert series for preschool, kindergarten and first grade students from across our area. Our local symphony orchestra and its beloved......

May 12, 2013
6:17 am

What Really Happened At Sinai? Honestly, Why Should We Care?

I assume that some readers may be puzzled or even mildly scandalized by the title of this essay. After all, what religious Jew - especially one who is......

May 5, 2013
6:08 am

Making Marriage Work

A family member of mine tells the following story about her Bible teacher, a religious Israeli woman who was on the staff of the Jewish day school she attended......

April 28, 2013
6:03 am

Sudoku, The Simpsons, Sefirah, and Servitude

My wife is the math and statistics person in our house. She fills in the numbers of a Sudoku challenge with the joy of a word-drunk poet......

April 21, 2013
5:18 am

Paying A Shivah Visit To The Richard Family

Because it is one more way for people to gossip and to engage in verbal warfare under the cover of a laptop, I resisted joining Facebook for a long......

April 14, 2013
6:19 am

What The Imam Taught Me

Interfaith dialogue in America has become so de rigueur that at times it feels to me like a tired platitude. In a well-honed ritual slow-dance of tongues, we......

April 7, 2013
2:00 pm

Hametz and my aliyah problem

Last Tuesday, somewhere in Jerusalem, or Tel Aviv, or Haifa, or Beer Sheva, some lucky Israeli was consuming his second hamburger-on-a-bun of the day; or she was scooping up......

March 29, 2013
4:06 pm

I didn’t make the ‘Top Rabbis’ list…again

Newsweek's most recent list of the top fifty rabbis in America was published on March 21, and I wasn't on it....again! The Jewish Daily Forward published its......

March 24, 2013
1:52 pm

At The Seder: Giving A Voice To the Voiceless

Each Passover season for the past twenty one years, the Jewish residents of our region's group homes for developmentally disabled adults have been coming to our synagogue......

March 17, 2013
2:44 am

A mourner, a comforter, a lesson re-learned

It was a Shabbat morning filled with simple blessings. The sun drenched the sanctuary of our synagogue with warmth and light, as people from throughout our community......

March 10, 2013
3:09 am

The “Torah” Of Springsteen

I last saw Bruce Springsteen perform at the old Giants Stadium in New Jersey, several months before it was demolished in 2010. Over five nights, he committed......

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