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Jan 16, 2021, 11:56 PM
Hard Hearts, Soft Words
I find it nearly impossible to read torah without looking out the window, I mean that literally and metaphorically. Very often when I study, I have to sit with a verse and look out into near nothingness to organize...
Jan 11, 2021, 12:40 AM
Temple of Democracy
My first thought on Thursday morning (January 6, 2021) as I watched rioters, white supremacists, proud boys, anarchists, anti-Semites and seditionists storm the Temple of Democracy that is the US Capitol was of Hanukah. To the ancient Jews this must...
Mar 14, 2020, 7:50 PM
It’s Okay to cry
Yesterday I cried in my car. You shouldn’t worry - I was parked at the time. I share this not for sympathy or even empathy - I share this because, these are harrowing times, we all feel the tremendous weight of...
Mar 7, 2020, 12:29 PM
Laughing in the Face of a Pandemic
A popular joke is circulating in Israel this week as nearly 100,000 Israelis are under quarantine due to the coronavirus (maybe more by the time of this publication). The jokes goes something like this: "Almost the entire country is in...
Jan 7, 2020, 1:58 AM
The Meaning of the Moment – Parashat Vayechi
"When Joseph's brothers saw that their father was dead, they grew frightened, 'What if Joseph still bears a grudge against us!'" Midrash Tanhuma asks: “What did they see that made them afraid? As they were returning from burying their father,...
Sep 29, 2018, 11:36 AM
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Sep 11, 2018, 8:29 AM
In Defense of Zionism
It was the most powerful moment of a powerful experience. It was during our recent congregational trip to Israel — and it happened just two weeks ago. There we were — in Tel Aviv — in Beit Haatzmaut, Israel’s House of...
Apr 9, 2016, 10:21 PM
The banana on the seder plate
Our Seder reflects family traditions and the priorities of our present day Jewish experience, this year mine will include a Banana. As a child growing up in a progressively Jewish household our Seder was a tzimis of Jewish activism. My...
Dec 28, 2015, 6:45 PM
Building Bridges Not Walls
Co-Authored by Rabbi Dan Moskovitz & Rabbi Daniel Gropper As a Canadian living in the United States and an American living in Canada, we are proud of the Canadian response to the Syrian refugee crisis. We also are frustrated by...
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Rabbi Dan Moskovitz is the Senior Rabbi of Temple Sholom in Vancouver BC Canada. A URJ Affiliated congregation.