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Why is this year’s portion different from other years?

  • Post published:April 14, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/D'var Torah

By Rabbi Geoffrey DennisParashat Tazria-Metzora To a devout Jew, and, even more so a rabbi, all parashiyot are equal. Torah always has something to say to us. But, to paraphrase…

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Celebrating the old-new land and the story of Am Yisrael

  • Post published:April 14, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists

By Josh Yudkin We just finished celebrating Passover and telling the story of the Exodus from Egypt and escaping slavery. We are still mourning racially motivated murders in Atlanta last…

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Our Jewish stories keep us all connected

  • Post published:April 14, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/Shalom From the Shabbat Lady

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, A number of years ago, just before Passover, David Ben-Gurion’s grandson spoke at Congregation Shearith Israel about his grandfather and Israel. He related a story…

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Sefiras haOmer, Part II

  • Post published:April 14, 2021
  • Post category:Ask the Rabbi/Columnists

Dear Rabbi, Thank you for answering my question relating to “counting the Omer.” I was fascinated by the point you made at the end of your remarks that one can…

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A bracelet of memory

  • Post published:April 14, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

I have not yet met Bonnie Glogover “in the flesh,” as the saying goes, but I know her very well; today’s internet makes this different kind of friendship possible. We…

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Butterflies, caterpillars and struggles

  • Post published:April 7, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/Shalom From the Shabbat Lady

By Laura Seymour Dear Families, It’s springtime and the trees are coming back to life. Many of our trees and bushes did not survive the crazy freeze but don’t give…

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The blood libels of vaccine denial and medical apartheid

  • Post published:April 7, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists

By Edwin Black An egregious lie has been making the rounds lately. It is a timeworn smear against the Jewish people in a modern guise. The ancient blood libel —…

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Writing poetry helps me process the unspeakable evils

  • Post published:April 7, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists

By Menachem Z. Rosensaft (JTA) — Not long after the gruesome reality of the Holocaust had burst onto the world’s consciousness, the philosopher and social theorist Theodor Adorno famously observed…

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Counting the Omer: Accentuate the positive

  • Post published:April 7, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/D'var Torah

By Rabbi Dan Lewin The 49-day period between Pesach and Shavuot is known as “the counting of the Omer.” This countdown — a mitzvah each day — is not simply…

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Everyone has a story

  • Post published:April 7, 2021
  • Post category:Columnists/In My Mind's I by Harriet Gross

I received this from a New Jersey friend who reports it as an actual happening — not to her, but found on an Instagram site called “Humans of Judaism”: “At…

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