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Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Feeling the pain of infertility

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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December 9, 2020
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Getting to know yourself before Rosh Hashanah

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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September 16, 2020
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Judging favorably during the coronavirus

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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May 20, 2020
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Social distance provides many valuable lessons

“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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March 25, 2020
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Rethinking the death penalty

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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November 13, 2019
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Thinking of a calling as a job sure way to succeed

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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October 10, 2019
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

The Talmud and illegal immigration

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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July 31, 2019
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Torah teachings vary when it comes to immigrants

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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June 20, 2019
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Freedom can be felt even in midst of slavery

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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April 18, 2019
Columnists / Rabbi Yogi

Heroic figures of our past are worth imitating

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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March 21, 2019
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