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Antisemitism
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Dec 6, 2023
Chanukah and the Fear of PDJs (Public Displays of Jewishness)
Dec 6, 2023
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Oct 11, 2023
The Battle for Decency and Truth Has Begun: Big-P and Little-P Politics
Oct 11, 2023
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Nov 18, 2022
Jon Stewart Buries the Lede
Nov 18, 2022
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Oct 21, 2022
This Week In Antisemitism: אף על פי כן / In Spite of It All
Oct 21, 2022
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Jun 13, 2022
Jews, Once Again in the Crosshairs
Jun 13, 2022
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Oct 26, 2019
On the Anniversary of the Terrorist Attack in Pittsburgh
Oct 26, 2019
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May 1, 2019
Marking Yom HaShoah in 2019
May 1, 2019
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Oct 29, 2018
Look, It's about White Supremacy
Oct 29, 2018
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Aug 16, 2017
After Charlottesville
Aug 16, 2017
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BDS
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Jun 13, 2022
Jews, Once Again in the Crosshairs
Jun 13, 2022
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Jul 20, 2021
Brain Freeze on Israel
Jul 20, 2021
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Jan 18, 2019
Saying No to the Neturei Karta of the Left
Jan 18, 2019
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Apr 14, 2017
Dreams Deferred: The Resource We've Been Waiting for to Combat BDS
Apr 14, 2017
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May 9, 2016
Neil Young, Dylan, Stones, McCartney: Divest from Roger Waters!
May 9, 2016
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Jun 17, 2014
G-d Bless the Rolling Stones
Jun 17, 2014
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May 12, 2013
The Black Hole of Antisemitism
May 12, 2013
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Bible
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Oct 8, 2023
Kohelet Speaks
Oct 8, 2023
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Feb 28, 2023
Parashat Tetzaveh - Israel's Ancient Ouija Board
Feb 28, 2023
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Sep 7, 2022
The Mitzvah of Forgetting
Sep 7, 2022
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Nov 4, 2021
Toldot: The Voice of Jacob, The Hands of Esau
Nov 4, 2021
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Oct 8, 2021
A Very Short Note About Parashat Noach
Oct 8, 2021
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Jan 8, 2021
Parashat Shemot: The Big Lie
Jan 8, 2021
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Jul 1, 2019
"Disability" Redux
Jul 1, 2019
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Oct 10, 2017
Rain (I Don't Mind) - For Shemini Atzeret
Oct 10, 2017
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Aug 6, 2017
All You Need is Love
Aug 6, 2017
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Jul 31, 2017
Tisha B'Av, Exile, & The Laws of Physics
Jul 31, 2017
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Jan 1, 2012
Disability
Jan 1, 2012
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Coronavirus
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Mar 20, 2021
Greens in Salt Water: Our Second Covid Passover
Mar 20, 2021
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Mar 10, 2021
One Year's Passing Since "That Day"
Mar 10, 2021
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Jul 9, 2020
A Day of Communal Compassion and Grief
Jul 9, 2020
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May 12, 2020
Lag BaOmer: The Day the Curve Flattened
May 12, 2020
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Mar 31, 2020
Where is the Pandemic in the Seder? Lots of Places—But Please, Not in the 10 Plagues
Mar 31, 2020
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Holidays
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Oct 22, 2024
How Can We Celebrate Simchat Torah in 2024?
Oct 22, 2024
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May 12, 2024
Bein Ha-Sh’mashot: Between Memory and Independence
May 12, 2024
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Dec 11, 2023
What is Chanukah?
Dec 11, 2023
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Dec 6, 2023
Chanukah and the Fear of PDJs (Public Displays of Jewishness)
Dec 6, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023
Zealots and Tisha B'Av
Jul 24, 2023
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Jul 6, 2023
Jerusalem's Past and Present (A Fast Day in the Eternal City)
Jul 6, 2023
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Mar 2, 2023
Purim after Huwara
Mar 2, 2023
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Oct 3, 2022
Why We Fast
Oct 3, 2022
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Apr 10, 2022
Where is Ukraine in the Haggadah?
Apr 10, 2022
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Mar 20, 2021
Greens in Salt Water: Our Second Covid Passover
Mar 20, 2021
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May 12, 2020
Lag BaOmer: The Day the Curve Flattened
May 12, 2020
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Mar 31, 2020
Where is the Pandemic in the Seder? Lots of Places—But Please, Not in the 10 Plagues
Mar 31, 2020
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Mar 9, 2020
Esther: A Brilliant Satire of Jewish-Diaspora Relations
Mar 9, 2020
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Feb 6, 2020
Tu BiShvat: How Israel Planted New Seeds in the Jewish Soul
Feb 6, 2020
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Jun 6, 2019
A Story on an Airplane (for Shavuot)
Jun 6, 2019
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May 1, 2019
Marking Yom HaShoah in 2019
May 1, 2019
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Apr 17, 2019
We're Doing the 10 Plagues All Wrong—Part Two
Apr 17, 2019
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Apr 16, 2019
We're Doing the Ten Plagues All Wrong—Part One
Apr 16, 2019
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Apr 11, 2019
Good Enough
Apr 11, 2019
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Sep 12, 2018
Miles Davis and the Art of Living
Sep 12, 2018
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Sep 6, 2018
Why Teshuvah Preceded the Creation of the World
Sep 6, 2018
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Jul 26, 2018
Borrowed Dresses: A Thought about Tu B'Av, the Festival of Love
Jul 26, 2018
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Jul 19, 2018
The Exile of Tisha B'Av: What Are We Mourning?
Jul 19, 2018
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Apr 19, 2018
On Israel's 70th Independence Day
Apr 19, 2018
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Feb 28, 2018
Nevertheless, Esther Persisted: Purim in a Nutshell
Feb 28, 2018
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Dec 18, 2017
The Secret of the Seventh Light
Dec 18, 2017
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Oct 10, 2017
Rain (I Don't Mind) - For Shemini Atzeret
Oct 10, 2017
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Israel
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Jul 22, 2024
From October 7 to 17 Tammuz
Jul 22, 2024
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Jul 8, 2024
What are You Reading?💔
Jul 8, 2024
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Jul 7, 2024
Transcending Trauma in Israel
Jul 7, 2024
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Jul 3, 2024
The Mood of Israel from Its Graffiti
Jul 3, 2024
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May 12, 2024
Bein Ha-Sh’mashot: Between Memory and Independence
May 12, 2024
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Nov 15, 2023
Reflections on the Rally for Israel in DC
Nov 15, 2023
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Oct 22, 2023
A Letter to a Liberal Minister Friend
Oct 22, 2023
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Oct 19, 2023
Seeking Inspiration Before Shabbat Noach
Oct 19, 2023
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Oct 11, 2023
The Battle for Decency and Truth Has Begun: Big-P and Little-P Politics
Oct 11, 2023
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Oct 8, 2023
Kohelet Speaks
Oct 8, 2023
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Aug 2, 2023
Against Defeatism
Aug 2, 2023
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Jul 24, 2023
Zealots and Tisha B'Av
Jul 24, 2023
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Jul 12, 2023
"Tzav Shemoneh" in Jerusalem
Jul 12, 2023
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Jul 6, 2023
Jerusalem's Past and Present (A Fast Day in the Eternal City)
Jul 6, 2023
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Apr 24, 2023
On the 75th Anniversary of Israeli Independence
Apr 24, 2023
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Mar 12, 2023
What "Pro-Israel" Must Mean Today
Mar 12, 2023
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Mar 9, 2023
Topol's Most Amazing Feat
Mar 9, 2023
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Mar 2, 2023
Purim after Huwara
Mar 2, 2023
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Aug 3, 2022
Against Zealots: The Meaning of Tisha B'Av in 2022
Aug 3, 2022
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Jul 20, 2021
Brain Freeze on Israel
Jul 20, 2021
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Sep 15, 2020
Have We Forgotten What Good News Looks Like?
Sep 15, 2020
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Jun 28, 2020
An Antidote to Cynicism
Jun 28, 2020
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Feb 6, 2020
Tu BiShvat: How Israel Planted New Seeds in the Jewish Soul
Feb 6, 2020
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Nov 4, 2019
On the 24th Yartzeit of Yitzhak Rabin ז״ל
Nov 4, 2019
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Feb 21, 2019
Od Kahane Chai?: A Poison Weed in Israel
Feb 21, 2019
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Jan 20, 2019
MLK & Israel
Jan 20, 2019
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Dec 8, 2018
One Good Legacy of 2018: Books about Israel
Dec 8, 2018
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Sep 13, 2018
Twenty-Five Years Ago Today
Sep 13, 2018
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May 14, 2018
Broken Clocks (on the U.S. Embassy Opening in Jerusalem)
May 14, 2018
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Apr 19, 2018
On Israel's 70th Independence Day
Apr 19, 2018
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Feb 11, 2018
The Stranger Who Resides with Us
Feb 11, 2018
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Dec 6, 2017
Of Course Jerusalem is Israel's Capital...
Dec 6, 2017
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Nov 26, 2017
Writing Roundup: A Few Recent Books with Writings of Mine
Nov 26, 2017
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Oct 29, 2017
The Balfour Centennial—A Time of Reflection & Introspection
Oct 29, 2017
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Oct 10, 2017
Rain (I Don't Mind) - For Shemini Atzeret
Oct 10, 2017
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Jul 20, 2017
Pluralism in Israel – Our Facts on the Ground
Jul 20, 2017
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May 23, 2017
Jerusalem, A Fractured Unity
May 23, 2017
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Apr 23, 2017
Hitler Didn't Create Israel. (Modernity Did.)
Apr 23, 2017
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Apr 15, 2017
Oslo on Broadway: The Long Shorter Road
Apr 15, 2017
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Apr 14, 2017
Dreams Deferred: The Resource We've Been Waiting for to Combat BDS
Apr 14, 2017
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May 9, 2016
Neil Young, Dylan, Stones, McCartney: Divest from Roger Waters!
May 9, 2016
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Mar 22, 2016
Why I Walked Out on Donald Trump at AIPAC
Mar 22, 2016
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Feb 8, 2016
The Art - and Challenge - of Compromise
Feb 8, 2016
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Jan 6, 2016
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Dan Ephron
Jan 6, 2016
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Aug 21, 2014
Gleanings in the Fields of Israel
Aug 21, 2014
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Jun 17, 2014
G-d Bless the Rolling Stones
Jun 17, 2014
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Nov 27, 2013
My Hero, the Rabbanit Bracha Kapach
Nov 27, 2013
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May 12, 2013
The Black Hole of Antisemitism
May 12, 2013
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Jewish Culture
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Judaism & Life
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Nov 19, 2024
Rabbi Leonard Kravitz ז״ל
Nov 19, 2024
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Aug 21, 2024
Miracles & My Road to Bilateral Hearing
Aug 21, 2024
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Dec 7, 2023
Rabbi David Ellenson זצ״ל
Dec 7, 2023
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Jun 7, 2023
On Friendship—Part One
Jun 7, 2023
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Apr 30, 2023
Rabbi Harold Kushner ז״ל
Apr 30, 2023
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Jan 12, 2022
In the Talmud, A Weirdly Sobering Voice from My Own Not-So-Distant Past
Jan 12, 2022
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Sep 9, 2021
Twenty Years
Sep 9, 2021
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Sep 22, 2020
A Troubling Thought on the Death of Ruth Bader Ginsberg זצ''ל
Sep 22, 2020
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Mar 22, 2020
Some RADIANCE for Dark Times - New Book!
Mar 22, 2020
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Feb 24, 2020
On the Death of an Indigent Jew
Feb 24, 2020
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Dec 9, 2019
A New Adventure in Jewish Learning - Come and Join Me
Dec 9, 2019
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Nov 28, 2019
Mr. Rogers' Moment
Nov 28, 2019
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Jul 29, 2019
Hearing Without My Ears
Jul 29, 2019
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Jul 24, 2019
Invisible Disability
Jul 24, 2019
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Mar 18, 2019
A Torah of Kindness
Mar 18, 2019
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Feb 17, 2019
Remembering Al Vorspan, My Teacher and Hero
Feb 17, 2019
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Oct 29, 2018
Look, It's about White Supremacy
Oct 29, 2018
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Aug 19, 2018
Why Do Parents Cry When Their Children Leave for College?
Aug 19, 2018
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Mitzvahs
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Jul 7, 2024
Transcending Trauma in Israel
Jul 7, 2024
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Sep 7, 2022
The Mitzvah of Forgetting
Sep 7, 2022
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Jun 28, 2020
An Antidote to Cynicism
Jun 28, 2020
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Mar 22, 2020
Some RADIANCE for Dark Times - New Book!
Mar 22, 2020
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Feb 24, 2020
On the Death of an Indigent Jew
Feb 24, 2020
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Dec 2, 2019
Book Announcement - Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living/The Selected Prose & Poetry of Danny Siegel
Dec 2, 2019
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May 29, 2018
Elegy for… a Character: A Tzedakah Story
May 29, 2018
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Nov 26, 2017
Writing Roundup: A Few Recent Books with Writings of Mine
Nov 26, 2017
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Sep 25, 2017
How to—and How Not to—Prepare for Yom Kippur
Sep 25, 2017
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Aug 21, 2014
Gleanings in the Fields of Israel
Aug 21, 2014
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Dec 15, 2013
Best Lunch Ever, With Aaron's Last Wish
Dec 15, 2013
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Nov 27, 2013
My Hero, the Rabbanit Bracha Kapach
Nov 27, 2013
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Music
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Sep 12, 2018
Miles Davis and the Art of Living
Sep 12, 2018
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Nov 9, 2017
Bob Dylan's "Trouble No More: 1979-1981": Understanding an American Apikoros
Nov 9, 2017
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Jun 17, 2014
G-d Bless the Rolling Stones
Jun 17, 2014
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Nov 3, 2013
A Hesped for Lou Reed
Nov 3, 2013
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May 5, 2012
Death of a Beastie Boy
May 5, 2012
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Politics
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Jul 27, 2022
The Ageism Behind the Movement for Biden Not to Run Again
Jul 27, 2022
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Feb 24, 2022
Is the War in Ukraine a "Jewish Issue"?
Feb 24, 2022
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Jan 8, 2021
Parashat Shemot: The Big Lie
Jan 8, 2021
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Jan 7, 2021
Statement from the Massachusetts Board of Rabbis on the Assault on America, January 6, 2021
Jan 7, 2021
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Sep 30, 2020
Election 2020 / A Lesson from the Days of Barry Goldwater
Sep 30, 2020
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Sep 15, 2020
Have We Forgotten What Good News Looks Like?
Sep 15, 2020
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Nov 4, 2019
On the 24th Yartzeit of Yitzhak Rabin ז״ל
Nov 4, 2019
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Jun 19, 2019
Are We Ever Allowed to Make Holocaust Comparisons?
Jun 19, 2019
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May 14, 2018
Broken Clocks (on the U.S. Embassy Opening in Jerusalem)
May 14, 2018
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Jan 31, 2018
Nuclear Dreams
Jan 31, 2018
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Dec 6, 2017
Of Course Jerusalem is Israel's Capital...
Dec 6, 2017
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Oct 29, 2017
The Balfour Centennial—A Time of Reflection & Introspection
Oct 29, 2017
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Aug 16, 2017
After Charlottesville
Aug 16, 2017
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Mar 22, 2016
Why I Walked Out on Donald Trump at AIPAC
Mar 22, 2016
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Jan 6, 2016
Killing a King: The Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin by Dan Ephron
Jan 6, 2016
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Jun 27, 2013
Marriage Isn't Sacred
Jun 27, 2013
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Pop Culture/Rock & Roll
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Aug 11, 2023
Rags and Bones: Remembering Robbie Robertson
Aug 11, 2023
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Jul 31, 2022
Happy 80th Birthday in the Next World, Jerry Garcia: Three Jewish Things I Learned from the Grateful Dead
Jul 31, 2022
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Sep 12, 2018
Miles Davis and the Art of Living
Sep 12, 2018
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Jan 31, 2018
Nuclear Dreams
Jan 31, 2018
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Nov 9, 2017
Bob Dylan's "Trouble No More: 1979-1981": Understanding an American Apikoros
Nov 9, 2017
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Aug 6, 2017
All You Need is Love
Aug 6, 2017
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Apr 15, 2017
Oslo on Broadway: The Long Shorter Road
Apr 15, 2017
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May 9, 2016
Neil Young, Dylan, Stones, McCartney: Divest from Roger Waters!
May 9, 2016
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Dec 30, 2014
"Into the Woods," Freedom, & Happily Ever After
Dec 30, 2014
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Jun 17, 2014
G-d Bless the Rolling Stones
Jun 17, 2014
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Nov 3, 2013
A Hesped for Lou Reed
Nov 3, 2013
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May 5, 2012
Death of a Beastie Boy
May 5, 2012
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Popular Culture
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Social Justice
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Apr 10, 2022
Where is Ukraine in the Haggadah?
Apr 10, 2022
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Mar 4, 2022
Don’t Kill Tsarnaev
Mar 4, 2022
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Feb 17, 2019
Remembering Al Vorspan, My Teacher and Hero
Feb 17, 2019
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Mar 9, 2018
Reflections on a Winter Nor'easter
Mar 9, 2018
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Feb 11, 2018
The Stranger Who Resides with Us
Feb 11, 2018
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Jan 15, 2018
A Thought for MLK Day - King & The Jews
Jan 15, 2018
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Spirituality
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Jan 22, 2023
Closing One Book & Opening the Next: 3 Years of Daf Yomi
Jan 22, 2023
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Nov 4, 2021
Toldot: The Voice of Jacob, The Hands of Esau
Nov 4, 2021
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Oct 23, 2020
Light in Darkness
Oct 23, 2020
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Jul 1, 2019
"Disability" Redux
Jul 1, 2019
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Apr 11, 2019
Good Enough
Apr 11, 2019
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Sep 12, 2018
Miles Davis and the Art of Living
Sep 12, 2018
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Sep 6, 2018
Why Teshuvah Preceded the Creation of the World
Sep 6, 2018
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Jul 19, 2018
The Exile of Tisha B'Av: What Are We Mourning?
Jul 19, 2018
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Jun 5, 2018
...an entire world...
Jun 5, 2018
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Mar 9, 2018
Reflections on a Winter Nor'easter
Mar 9, 2018
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Dec 18, 2017
The Secret of the Seventh Light
Dec 18, 2017
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Nov 9, 2017
Bob Dylan's "Trouble No More: 1979-1981": Understanding an American Apikoros
Nov 9, 2017
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Oct 10, 2017
Rain (I Don't Mind) - For Shemini Atzeret
Oct 10, 2017
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Sep 25, 2017
How to—and How Not to—Prepare for Yom Kippur
Sep 25, 2017
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Aug 6, 2017
All You Need is Love
Aug 6, 2017
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Jul 31, 2017
Tisha B'Av, Exile, & The Laws of Physics
Jul 31, 2017
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Aug 21, 2014
Gleanings in the Fields of Israel
Aug 21, 2014
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Jan 1, 2012
Disability
Jan 1, 2012
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Tzedakah
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Mar 22, 2020
Some RADIANCE for Dark Times - New Book!
Mar 22, 2020
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Dec 2, 2019
Book Announcement - Radiance: Creative Mitzvah Living/The Selected Prose & Poetry of Danny Siegel
Dec 2, 2019
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May 29, 2018
Elegy for… a Character: A Tzedakah Story
May 29, 2018
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Nov 26, 2017
Writing Roundup: A Few Recent Books with Writings of Mine
Nov 26, 2017
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Aug 21, 2014
Gleanings in the Fields of Israel
Aug 21, 2014
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Nov 27, 2013
My Hero, the Rabbanit Bracha Kapach
Nov 27, 2013