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Feeling the pain of infertility

  • Post published:December 9, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Rabbi Yogi

One can scarcely appreciate the pain and suffering of a couple bound in the grips of infertility without properly appreciating that for which they so long — the one-of-a-kind joy…

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Getting to know yourself before Rosh Hashanah

  • Post published:September 16, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Rabbi Yogi

The year 2020 will go down in the books as containing one of the more unusual Rosh Hashanahs in Jewish history. For the majority of Jews in America, synagogue gatherings…

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Judging favorably during the coronavirus

  • Post published:May 20, 2020
  • Post category:Columnists/Rabbi Yogi

While it’s hard to imagine that it has already been more than two months since the coronavirus stay-at-home policies began, the underlying, widely persistent familial friction pulsating in many of…

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Social distance provides many valuable lessons

  • Post published:March 25, 2020
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“If I had the power I would provisionally close all synagogues for a hundred years. Do not tremble at the thought of it, Jewish heart. What would happen? Jews and…

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Rethinking the death penalty

  • Post published:November 13, 2019
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How does the Torah view the ultimate punishment? Ray Jefferson Cromartie is set to be executed in my home state of Georgia in just under three days as of the…

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Thinking of a calling as a job sure way to succeed

  • Post published:October 10, 2019
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In ancient Israel, Jewish farmers were obligated to give portions of their harvest to members of the tribe of Levi (the tribe not given an inheritance in the land of…

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The Talmud and illegal immigration

  • Post published:July 31, 2019
  • Post category:Columnists/Rabbi Yogi

The sages provide potential solutions to undocumented immigrant problem With more than 10 million undocumented immigrants living in the shadows of the United States, proponents from both sides of the…

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Torah teachings vary when it comes to immigrants

  • Post published:June 20, 2019
  • Post category:Columnists/Rabbi Yogi

Every year, on the first night of the holiday of Shavuot, I deliver a Torah class about a timely political or social topic. The more controversial, the better; after all,…

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Freedom can be felt even in midst of slavery

  • Post published:April 18, 2019
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Pesach sure gives slavery a bad rap. After all, the Seder’s dominant theme is that of the Israelites moving away from slavery and toward a life of freedom. And the…

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Heroic figures of our past are worth imitating

  • Post published:March 21, 2019
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We got the Torah on Shavuot, but you won’t find any 9-year-olds dressed up as Moses, holding up cut-out-cardboard Ten Commandments, anywhere in synagogue over that holiday. Not many Maccabee…

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