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Jul 21, 2022, 8:16 AM

Opening our eyes to interpret law

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Every day, there are news stories, personal interest dialogues, and governments sessions calling our attention to the importance of law and how it is interpreted. . No matter one own’s view on any particular issue, news coverage, Supreme Court...

Sep 25, 2020, 8:28 AM

Playing Hide and Seek on Yom Kippur

Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Hasidism, describes the High Holidays as a game of hide and seek. It feels like God is hidden, so we seek. We try to hide, and God finds us. In a usual year, as...

Sep 17, 2020, 10:51 PM

Change Is Here and We Are Ready

Accepting that which is different is one of the most complex human endeavors for which psychologists tell us we are not well wired. To maintain internal stability, humans gravitate towards a state of homeostasis, resisting change and seeking the...

Sep 5, 2020, 12:14 AM

All in a Day’s Work (In Honor of Labor Day)

At the height of the Industrial Revolution in the late 1800s, the average American worked 12 hours a day, seven days a week just to earn a basic living. People of all ages- children and adults and especially the...

May 31, 2020, 8:30 AM

Watershed Moment of Tears

In this period of the coronavirus stay at home order, I have maintained a mostly positive outlook. I have held on to the fortune I feel in having a beautiful home, food to eat, and a job that both...

May 23, 2020, 2:13 AM

Remembering for a purpose

In 1868, General John Logan issued General Order No. 11, calling for a national day of remembrance for those who had lost their lives in the American Civil War. It was soon decided that May 30 of that year...

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About Me

Rabbi Cheryl Peretz is the Associate Dean of the Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, which trains rabbis who go on to lead and re-invent Jewish institutions for every stage of life and strengthen Jewish living for people of all ages. Rabbi Peretz has experience as a pulpit rabbi and serves as a speaker and scholar-in-residence in communities around the world. She holds an MBA in Marketing Management from Baruch College, and helps bring those skills and expertise into the operational practices of rabbis and congregations throughout North America. Her work has been published in the Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles and on the Ziegler’s Today’s Torah, and she has contributed chapters to books on Jewish living.

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