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These are the names...
Friday January 24, 2025/24 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vaera Friends/Hevre, Emily Damari. Romi Gonen. Doron Steinbrecher. Names seared into our...
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And the bush was not consumed...
Friday January 17, 2025/17 Tevet 5785 Parashat Shemot Friends/Hevre, Could it really be happening? Could the hostages finally be coming...
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“Be whomever you will be, and may you be blessed in all you become.”
Friday January 10, 2025/10 Tevet 5785 Parashat Vayechi Hevre/Friends, In this week’s final portion of the Book of Genesis, as Jacob nears...
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The First Light is the Brightest
Friday December 27, 2024/26 Kislev 5785 Parashat Miketz/Shabbat Hanukkah Hevre/Friends, On the first night of Hanukkah about 75...
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How do you know when it's morning?
Friday December 20, 2024/19 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayeshev וַיֹּ֕אמֶר-- אֶת־אַחַ֖י אָנֹכִ֣י מְבַקֵּ֑שׁ [J oseph] answered, I am looking...
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"Let it snow, let your winter dreams grow." (from Winter Dreams)
Friday December 13, 2024/12 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, This time next week Andi and I will be back in the Laurentians...
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Leaving Home to Come Home
Friday December 6, 2024/5 Kislev 5785 Parashat Vayetze Hevre/Friends, When people ask about my experience growing up in the Orthodox...
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Continuity is about more than replication
Friday November 22, 2024/21 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Chaye Sarah Hevre/Friends, The most dramatic story in parashat Chaye Sarah is the one...
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My Gratitude Teacher
It sounds so simple: be grateful for all we have. And yet, there are times when it’s just really hard to feel it.
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My daughter, My Teacher
Yesterday over coffee after a grueling exercise class, I got a loving but firm lecture from my daughter (when did those tables turn?).
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Broken-Hearted Politics
Friday November 8, 2024/7 H eshvan 5785 Parashat Lech Lecha Hevre/Friends, In his 2005 essay on holding together the tensions of...
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Maybe Politics Should Take a Page Out of Religion
Friday November 1, 2024/Rosh Chodesh H eshvan Parashat Noa h Hevre/Friends, This past Wednesday in my Contemporary Halakhah (Jewish Law)...
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