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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...
Nov 6, 2024, 7:39 PM
Don’t Follow Leaders
Bob Dylan’s lyric, “Don’t follow leaders/watch the parking meters,” keeps coming back to me as I think about today’s political landscape. There’s wisdom in Dylan’s turn of phrase—cautioning us not only about whom we follow but also about the...
Oct 9, 2024, 9:21 PM
The Fog of War and T’shuvah
T'shuvah is a Hebrew word combining the domains of repentance, reflection, and change. It is most literally translated to English as "return." Traditional liturgy states that t'shuvah in concert with fasting and charity are the three human acts that can annul divine decrees against us...
Oct 1, 2024, 5:21 PM
Freedom and Nothing Left to Lose
Kris Kristofferson died this week. He wrote the song "Me and Bobby McGee" that Janis Joplin made famous. The lyrics to that song contain one of the most important aphorisms of popular music: "Freedom's just another word for nothing left...
Sep 26, 2024, 11:53 AM
New Light, Old Fear in a New Year
After a busy day of meetings in and around New York City during my recent travels, I met two friends for a late night drink prior to another early morning wake-up call the next day. Maybe it was the...
Sep 5, 2024, 3:57 PM
‘Finally, finally, finally, you’re free’
Having spent the month writing twenty thousand words of a new book during my mini-Sabbatical, it makes sense that I would be at a loss for more words to share. But it's not the work on that book that...
Jul 4, 2024, 2:14 PM
The world according to John Irving in Jerusalem
Last night I met the man who made me a reader, and on a good day, a writer: John Irving. He's in Jerusalem to complete the final chapter of his next novel, and shared anecdotes from a life of...
Jun 6, 2024, 11:08 AM
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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.
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