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A Prayer for Gaza and to Preserve Our Humanity
By Rabbis Felicia Sol and Roly Matalon of B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.
Pesach: A Labor-Intensive Passover
Labor is an intersectional value. Our identity as workers must be as indispensable to us as that of once having been slaves in Egypt.
My trip to Immokalee
CONGREGATION SHA’AREI KODESH 2nd Day of Passover MARCH 27, 2013 © RABBI LOUIS RIESER Hag kasher v’Sameah. I want to thank Rabbi Baum for this invitation to speak about my experience in Immokalee with T’ruah: The Rabbinic Call for Human Rights. In January I joined 9 other rabbis to learn first-hand about the conditions...
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Sukkoth: Expanding Our Awareness of the Harvest
When does Jacob do teshuvah for swindling his brother Esau out of birthright and paternal blessing? Reading over the brothers’ reconciliation in Parshat Vayishlach, I am struck by all that is missing. How can the brothers truly reconnect if past hurts are left buried? As Esau approaches, Jacob’s actions show concern but not contrition. He...
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True Teshuvah
When does Jacob do teshuvah for swindling his brother Esau out of birthright and paternal blessing? Reading over the brothers’ reconciliation in Parshat Vayishlach, I am struck by all that is missing. How can the brothers truly reconnect if past hurts are left buried? As Esau approaches, Jacob’s actions show concern but not contrition. He...
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Who Is Wise, Powerful, Wealthy and Honored?
In this powerful d’var torah for Human Rights Shabbat, Rabbi David Spinrad reflects on his experience as part of the first #TomatoRabbis delegation in September, 2011.
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On Power, Hope, and Change
A Sermon for Rosh Hashanah, 5772 Rabbi Barbara Penzner I’d like to start by talking about the movies. Who here has seen “Moneyball”? Who is planning to see it? Good, that means that you may have some idea about the movie. It’s the story of Billy Beane, general manager of the 2002 Oakland Athletics....
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