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Apr 30, 2025, 4:53 PM
The Art of Memory
We live in an age of information overload and scarcity of wisdom. Even with the revolution promised by AI, much of our lives carried in our phones, and all variety of synthetic distractions addling our brains, memory remains one...
Apr 9, 2025, 8:52 PM
Praying with Our Feet
As two of my kids and I lined up for the 5K race at this year’s Jerusalem Marathon—part of a crowd of thousands—I wasn’t expecting to be stopped in my tracks before we even began. Jerusalem Mayor Moshe Lion...
Apr 3, 2025, 4:23 PM
You Really Need a Rabbi
Not long after I began my role as Executive Director of the 14th Street Y in 2007, my then-boss Robin Bernstein—CEO of the Educational Alliance—graciously introduced me to Harvey Schulweis, z”l. Harvey, a self-made business success and a legendary...
Mar 27, 2025, 2:45 PM
Joy Is the Radical, Obvious Thing
A friend in the U.S. asked me this week what the atmosphere in Israel feels like right now. I paused, and then said something that’s lingered with me since: This is a joyless government in a dark time. We are...
Mar 12, 2025, 8:15 PM
Get Drunk on Virtue
Some say Charles Baudelaire was the father of modern poetry. I say that he would have understood the poetry of Purim deeply. Many years ago, I composed the music to the Hebrew translation of a poem by Baudelaire entitled...
Mar 6, 2025, 12:43 PM
Find the Helpers, Pull the Espresso
It started as a small, incidental thing—just a minor interaction at an airport coffee stand—but it got me thinking about something important. After nearly two weeks bouncing between Philadelphia, Miami, New York City, and Cleveland, I landed at Ben Gurion...
Feb 13, 2025, 2:59 PM
Jerusalem, Skinny Legs and All
In the final scene of Skinny Legs and All, one of the magnificent novels of Tom Robbins, who died this week at 92, Boomer and Ellen Cherry have discovered a world not so different from one many of us...
Jan 30, 2025, 4:35 PM
A Change Is Gonna Come
A friend sent me Rolling Stone's 100 Best Protest Songs of All Time this morning. Sam Cooke's "A Change Is Gonna Come" lands at number one. Cooke was inspired by hearing Bob Dylan's "Blowin' in the Wind" and being...
Jan 23, 2025, 12:34 PM
The Crack-Up and the War
Recently, in another forum, my colleague Rabbi Ed Rettig reminded me of one of my favorite quotes from F. Scott Fitzgerald. In his 1936 essay The Crack-Up, Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to...
Dec 12, 2024, 3:15 PM
Here’s to the Rabbis
We are privileged to have met with many rabbis and future rabbis from abroad this week, all part of the gathering of the Rabbinical Assembly in Jerusalem that ended today. When I see my colleagues whom I know from...
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Dr. Stephen Daniel Arnoff is the CEO of the Fuchsberg Jerusalem Center and author of the book About Man and God and Law: The Spiritual Wisdom of Bob Dylan. Explore his teaching, writing, and community work at www.stephendanielarnoff.com.
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