D'var Torah
Strangers in our Healthcare System
...we can no longer afford to be strangers within the healthcare system.
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Finding the Roots of Our Neighbor’s Home
The al-Walaja olive tree is one of the oldest trees in the world... Today, as it bears fruit for this generation of residents, it also bears witness to the State of Israel demolishing the homes of some of those residents.
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Embracing Our Inner Nachshon
Things can only change if we have the faith to believe in possibilities that we currently cannot imagine.
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Choosing Justice Over First-Born Status
Firstborns can be supplanted in many different ways, not all of them virtuous.
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Reckoning with Climate Change in Egypt and Today
We have enough warning signs, enough extreme climate names. Let us not be Pharaohs on the way to deaths in every household.
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Getting to Know You
True relationships, born out of love and respect, take time to develop. These relationships require intimacy and occasionally discomfort in order to truly know each other.
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Be Like Brothers In Every Place
Just as Ephraim and Menashe became the gold standard of siblings in the eyes of Jewish tradition, so too are we called to extend a loving hand to all the people we come across, no matter who they are, how they may differ from us, or what else may be going on in our own lives.
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A Just, Humane Immigration System Starts With Vision
I have just returned from the borderlands, where the conjoined cities of El Paso and Ciudad Juarez meet.
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The Power of Dreams and Our Power to Create Prophecy
...if, like this Pharaoh, we can move beyond the terror to seeking options with an open mind, we may find ourselves with more resources at hand than we ever realized was possible.
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A Hero of Biblical Proportions?
When someone like Kenneth Smith is praying even as he is lying on a bed of death, how can we pass by once we are made aware, awakened to God's presence there?
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