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Feb 25, 2022, 6:18 AM
Vayakhel & The Olympics: More Is Too Much
The successful campaign to collect funds and materials for the construction of the Tabernacle, described in this Shabbat’s primary Torah portion, Parashat Vayakhel, was especially notable for its conclusion. After being informed that the required quantities had been gathered, Moses...
Feb 10, 2022, 9:50 PM
Striking MAUS Is Antisemitic & Anti-American
The decision by one Tennessee school district to remove Art Spiegelman’s classic Holocaust story, MAUS, from its eighth grade curriculum was small-minded but not antisemitic, argued Margaret Renk, a New York Times writer who focuses on Southern culture. Instead,...
Jan 21, 2022, 7:39 AM
Our Vulnerability Is Our Strength
In Colleyville, Texas, this past weekend, Malik Faisal Akram exploited Congregation Beth Israel’s desire to welcome and help those less fortunate. Posing as a homeless person, he was invited inside and offered a cup of hot tea before holding...
Dec 19, 2021, 4:18 PM
Vayechi: You Can’t Move Forward Without Looking Backwards
Just after the funeral and burial of Jacob, the third of the patriarchs, this Shabbat's Torah portion, Parashat Vayechi, describes how the brothers were suddenly fearful that Joseph would finally exact his revenge against them for having sold him...
May 7, 2021, 7:39 PM
We can’t change the past, only the future
Parshat Behar-Bechukotai Yom Yerushalayim The opening commandments of our double Torah portion of Behar-Bechukotai concern the Shemittah, the once every seven years Sabbatical during which most agricultural activity was forbidden, and the Yovel, the Jubilee that was declared once every fifty...
Oct 8, 2020, 3:52 AM
The Ushpizin Were Refugees: What They Mean Today
At a rally in Minnesota last week, President Trump said, “Biden will turn Minnesota into a refugee camp,” referring to the roughly 50,000 Somalis living in the city, many of whom came to America in order to escape the...
Sep 17, 2020, 10:47 PM
We By Fire: Rosh Hashanah 5781
In the keynote High Holy Days prayer of Unetaneh Tokef, we reflect, “umi ba’esh - And who by fire.” An accurate answer might be, more and more of us each year. Already, well over four million acres have been scorched...
Jul 9, 2020, 10:46 PM
Parashat Pinchas: Counting Towards The Cure
Several weeks ago, the former UK Chief Rabbi, Lord Jonathan Sacks, referred to the COVID-19 pandemic as “a revelation, even for atheists,” meaning that this harrowing experience has brought into relief so much to us about our society, its...
Jun 11, 2020, 8:32 AM
When Life Is a Competition, We All Lose
The recent ESPN documentary “The Last Dance” probed the psyche of Michael Jordan as he led the Chicago Bulls to six NBA championships in eight years. In particular, it focused on his hyper-competitiveness -- his desperate, if not pathological...
Apr 5, 2020, 6:12 PM
Like A Good Seder, Social Distancing Teaches Empathy
On his April 2 Fox News show, Tucker Carlson again speculated whether it would have been preferable if America had, as a country, limited social distancing guidelines to the elderly and those most at risk from COVID-19, while "everyone...
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Avraham Bronstein is rabbi of The Hampton Synagogue in Westhampton Beach, NY.
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