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Community Blog Teen Reflections for a Meaningful New Year

5780. A new year. The perfect time to recharge, reflect and think about what cou...

Holidays Building Our Sukkot, Rebuilding Ourselves

Sukkot As a shul-goer and parent (and as a grocery shopper), I spend a lot of th...

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Deuteronomy How Moses Comes to Terms with Mortality

Parashat Vayelech (Deuteronomy 31:1-30) In my work as a geriatric chaplain in a ...

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Deuteronomy Teshuvah: Wisdom from Teachers and Children

On Father’s Day 2015, I traveled with my children to New Haven, Connecticut to...

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Community Blog Feel the Tekiah: On Elul and the International Climate Strikes

There is something that happens when we hear a gifted ba’al tekiah (shofar...

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Community Blog Forbidden Fruit, Rosh HaShanah, and Our Climate Crisis

According to Hasidic traditions, the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil, from th...