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Vayigash : The Old New Years
December 31, 2011
Rabbi Emeritus Zvi Dershowitz
Keywords : Aviv, calendar, Canaan, Cirius, cloud, Egypt, exodus, hunger, Joseph, New Year, Nile, population, shabbat, tombs, United Nations
Miketz : The Difference in Being Different
December 24, 2011
Rabbi Emeritus Zvi Dershowitz
Drash: Rabbi Emeritus Zvi Dershowitz
Keywords : Antiochus, Babylonian, battle, better, chosen, Goshen, Greco-Syrian, Hanukkah, Helenist, kodesh, Maccabean, military, miracle, Olympus, Pesach, presents, priests, Roman. superior. victory, Zion
Vayeshev : Dangerous Love
December 17, 2011
Keywords : Aaron, Bathsheba, Cain, Cathy Lansman, dance,David, family, friction, Iris Murdoch, Ishmael, John Barth, Joseph, love, Michal, Miriam, Potiphar
Vayishlach : Esau and the Power of Forgiveness
December 10, 2011
Keywords : Benno Jacob, contrite, courage, courage, Essau, forgive, limp, old, quarrel, Rashbaum, reflection, soft, strong
Vayetzei : The Divided Soul?
December 3, 2011
Keywords : Chaim Halberstam,dark, Edgar Allan Poe, Essau, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Hyde, Isaac, Ishmael, Jacob, Jekyl, light, perfect, Rambam, Robert Benchley, tiger, Wicked, William Butler Yeats, William Wilson, yetzer hara, yetzer hatov
Toldot : What We Should Not Be Thankful For
November 26, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : army, black dot, flat tire, grateful, Joseph Epstien, light, medicine, secrets, Shimon Peres, thankful, thankfulness, Thanksgiving, tikkun olam, transportation, unthankful
Chayei Sara : Does Religion Make You Healthier?
November 19, 2011
Keywords : AIDS, Alzheimer's, cancer, cholesterol, community, doctor, Duke University, happier, Harold Koenig, health, healthier, heart disease, Methuselah, New York, Oxford, religion, Robert Putnam, volunteer, vote
Vayera : Defining Normalcy
November 12, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham, angels, autism, blessing, boxes, Ezra, grieve, help, heroes, Moses, normal, role-model, Tom Fields-Meyer, variety, Vista Del Mar
Lech-Lecha : A Place That I Will Show You
November 5, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Abraham, Canaan, direction, Ed Feinstein, footstep, GPS, Israel, Jerusalem, lost, Maggid of Dubno, Or Kastim, parents, reward, Samara, Tel Aviv
Noach : Prayer: What is it Good For?
October 29, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : 2000 Year Old Man, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Albert Rosenblatt, Carl Reiner, hearing, listening, Max Horowitz, Mel Brooks, Noah, Phil, prayer
Bereshit : Are We Better Than Animals?
October 22, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : angels, animals, Cervantes, chag, death, Don Quixote, dust, emptiness, Gerrer Rebbe, gold, nothingness, programmed, questions, uselessness, vanity
Schmini Atzeret : The One Who Remembers
October 22, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham, Geshem prayer, immortality, Isaac, Jacob, Marcel Proust, memory, Moses, remember, William Shakespeare, Yizkor
Bereshit : Is There a Time For Everything?
October 15, 2011
Keywords : blessing, bodilessness, body, desert, eat, eating, gift, harvest, peach, physical, soul, spirit, sukkot, T.S. Elliot, yom kippur
Yom Kippur : A Distant Glow
October 8, 2011
Keywords : baseball, car, death, Derek Parfit, future, glow, heaven, jokes, kaddish, Philadelphia, Phillies, Robert Frost, Shlomo Carlebach, stars, Steve Jobs, yizkor
Kol Nidre : Changing Your Past
October 7, 2011
Keywords : Abraham Lincoln, aphasic, desert, dinner, family, father, future, Horace Greeley, J.L. Austin, joke, mother, past, Sidney Morgenbesser, stroke, Theodor Herzl, Vaudeville
Beshalach : Looking Back
October 1, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Amos Funkenstein, anger, courage, ego, empathy, energy, fence, focus, impatience, Mark Twain, Mel Brooks, memory, moment, moods, mouse, patience, peace, perfection, Persian weddings, procrastination, sundials, Tom Sawyer, trait, wisdom
Rosh Hashanah II : Time and Space
September 30, 2011
Keywords : collapse, East, Einstein, forgive, forgivness, Greek, jewish stages, possible, relativity, remember, Rosh Hashana, space, time, today, West, wrong
Rosh Hashanah I : A Sermon About Nothing
September 29, 2011
Keywords : children, golf, Kohelet, love, Michel de Montaigne, mystics, nothing, reason, reasoning, scholars, Seinfeld, silence, temple, William James
Erev Rosh Hashanah : Everything Old is New Again
September 28, 2011
Keywords : A. E. Housman, attention, braid, career, deli, generalities, George Bernard Shaw, John Burroughs, Madeline Kahn, novelty, poem, Sidney Morgenbesser, soup, specifics, weltschmerz, world weariness
Nitzavim-Vayeilech : “Perfect Jews”
September 24, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 5771,asparagus, bad Jew, beard, failure, food pantry, Franz Rosenzweig, good Jew, ideal Jew, kindness, kosher, mitzvah, money, old man, rules, sea, shopping cart, sky, sova
Ki Tavo : Secret Goodness, Secret Sin
September 17, 2011
Keywords : Blaise Pascal, blessings, b'not mitzvah, chew, cured, curses, gum, idols, point, public, Rabbi Gratz, secret, sermon, solitude, worship
Ki Teitzei : Torah Lessons from 9/11
September 10, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 9-11, Brian Sweeney , C.C. Lyles, Civil War, coffin, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Gershwin, Jerusalem, Judah Maccabee, Mark Bingham, Mel Gibson, Melissa Herrington, mountains, New York, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakkai, Revolutionary War, terror, Tom Burnett, tragedy, twin towers, Vespasian, Walter Hines, Yavneh
Shoftim : What is Religious?
September 3, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : aesthetics, bar. beauty. beggars, ethics, fish, Gerard Manley Hopkins, joke, Max Kadushin, narrow bridge, New Yoker, Paul Clay, Rabbi Nachman, religious, Rome, William Haslett, Yehoshua ben Levi
Re’eh : What is Conservative Judaism?
August 27, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Akiva, Albert Einstein, Aristotle, Biblica Hebrea Stuttgart, caterpillar, Conservative Judaism, Dead Sea Scrolls, definition, history, identity, Isaiah, Lee Levine, Maimonides, mind, Oral Roberts, Roche, self, slavery, Solomon Schechter, Theodor Herzl, Torah Code
Eikev : Punished By Rewards
August 20, 2011
Keywords : Avraham, baby, Balshentov, goodness, learning, Moshe, Mother Teresa, rewards, steal, stock market, Una Tana Tokef
Vaetchanan : Deuteronomy and the London Riots
August 13, 2011
Keywords : burn, economic, Exodus, fun, George Will, London, Moses, religion, riots, smash, society, Ten Commandments
Devarim : The Unsatisfying Blessing of Memory
August 6, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : bucket, Deuteronomy, epithet, experience, immortalize, loss, memory, Moses, shared
Masei : Grappling With Madness
July 30, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : angels, barefoot, gunman, July 22, kidnap, king, Lamentations, Leiby Kletzky, madness, mourn, murder, Norway, scary, Tisha B'Av
Matot : I Swear It
July 23, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Dr. Lieber, government, Hemmingway, Homer, John Boehner, Kohelet, Kol Nidre, neder, oaths, Odysseus, politicians, siren, swear, vow, weather, Yiftach
Pinchas : Double Meanings in Torah
July 16, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : 405, capital punishment, Chaim Weiner, Cozbi, echo, Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, feedback, freeway, Hillel, killing, Midianites, Penelope, Pinchas, Rahm Bahm, violence, weaving, Yud, zealot, zealotry, Zimri
Balak : A Report From Europe
July 9, 2011
Keywords : Adat Shalom, ancestor, , descendant,Dominique Strauss-Kahn, Hungary, mishkan, moishe house, Muslim, Paris, Poland, Randolph Churchill, Romania, Spain, Voltaire, Winston Churchill, yiddish
Chukat : Strength From Afar
July 2, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Andrew Silverstein, Camp Ramah, campers, comfort, counselors, funeral, Georgia, mourn, nature, Ramah Darom, shiva, sorrow, youthfulness
Korach : The Secret Behind Korach’s Rebellion
June 25, 2011
Keywords : argue, argument, change, contradiction, dispute, Emerson, good, grow, Hillel, humble,Korach, leadership, learn, listen, Monty Python, Moses, Shamai, Thoreau
Sh’lah L’kha – What’s Your Mission
June 18, 2011
Keywords : children, destination, fiedelity, forgiveness, honesty, integrity, Jehoshua, Joshua, journey, passion, Saul, schools, slaves, wilderness
Beha’alotcha : Dissatisfaction
June 11, 2011
Keywords : Adam, compassion, complain, desert, Ish, Isha, love, manna, meat, more, spirit
Shavuot
June 9, 2011
Keywords : Anthony Weiner, catering, Clinton, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, reputation, scandals, Solon, Vaudeville, Yizkor
Nasso : Halfway Home: Israel, Then and Now
June 4, 2011
Keywords : FaceBook, Kenneth Minogue, Max Frisch, Oprah, Ralph Waldo Emerson, shortcut, Skype, slave mentality, technology, temperature, Torah, wilderness
Bamidbar : Obama, Netanyahu, and AIPAC
May 28, 2011
Keywords : AIPAC, argument, Bush, Clinton, Dennis Ross, George W. Bush, Hillary Clinton, Israel Foreign Ministry, Menachem Begin, military, Netanyahu, Obama, political, politics, Rahm Emanuel, Regan, two-state solution
Bechukotai : The Self and the World
May 21, 2011
Keywords : AIPAC, Benjamin Netanyahu, city, conference, desert, Discovery Of Heaven, ego, Harry Mulisch, Job, John Keats, parsha, rebuke, Robert Gordis, Solomon, Tintern Abbey, William Wordsworth
Behar : The Meaning of Redemption
May 14, 2011
Keywords : Danny Gordis, Esther Cailingold, George Mitchell, heart, Irish, James Joyce, Matt Ridley, sacrifice, state, stone, synergy, William Yeats, Yehuda Avner
Emor : The Killing of Bin Laden
May 7, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : beer, Bin Laden, champagne, enemy, evil, Father DuBois, good, Hamas, Navy Seals, obituaries, Rabbi Meyer, shiva, war, wicked, Yakov Dayan
Masei : Young Rabbis and Israel: A Different Perspective
April 30, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Anti-Defamation League, criticism, critique, Daniel Gordis, free, Gilad Shalit, Hannah Senish, Hillel, Israel, Keneset, peace, politics, Rabbinical school, school, tallit, Theodor Herzl, Yoni Netanyahu, young rabbis
Pesach VIII – Giving God Our Memories
April 26, 2011
Keywords : ancestors, ashes, dust, empty, grief, Joseph, memories, mitzvot, nothing, prayer, sacrifice, Yehuda Hachasid
Men’s Club Shabbaton: The Meaning of Redemption
April 23, 2011
Keywords : freedom, haggadah, Henry David Thoreau, idolitry, idols, men's club shabbat, monotheism, pesach, praise, prophets, redemption, shame, slavery
Pesach I : Brokenness
April 19, 2011
Keywords : acceptance, basketball, broken, brokenness, Hal Greer, hide, hiding, honesty, Irving Kosloff, Jim Boughton, love, lucky, Oscar Robertson, parents, perfection, Philidelphia 76ers, redemption, secrets, shame, truth, Willis Reed, Wilt Chamberlain
Achrei Mot : The Haggadah
April 16, 2011
Keywords : Deuteronomy, , oor, Elijah, Enosh, Exodus, first fruits, Haggadah, IRS, messiah, redemption, Shabbat HaGadol, Shavuot, Shavuote, sorry, Wandering Aramean
Metzora : Two Kinds of Freedom
April 9, 2011
Keywords : ashkeNafard, Egyptian, Elijah, free, Israelite, Passover, seder, strangers, Yisrael Campbell
Tazria : Being Wrong
April 2, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham Joshua Heschel, chicken, colors, cows, error, error, humility, Kathryn Schulz, milk, Molier, right, Tazria, wrong
Shmini : Why There is No Peace
March 26, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : American Jewish Univeristy, animal, Anne Frank, Christian, dehumanize, Don Hewitt, enemies, human, Marilyn Berger, mirror neurons, peace, person, Rick Hodes, Rwanda, sacrifice, suffering
Vayikra : How We Are Different
March 12, 2011
Keywords : Abraham, Catskills, concert, Danny Gordis, Egypt, Gerson Cohen, Maimonides, Moses, name, perfume, plants, songs, stories, tallit, tradition, trees
Pekudei : The Sense of An Ending
March 5, 2011
Keywords : beginning, birthday, brothers, candles, ending, Frank Kermode, Ramban, tick tock
Vayekhel : The Secret of Moses’ Shining Face
February 26, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Daniella, face, humble, mask, Miguel de Unamuno, Moses, peace, Rabbi Akiva Eger, R'Levi Yitzhak of Berdichev, shine, shining, veil
Ki Tisa : Everything That Glitters
February 19, 2011
Keywords : cell phone, dor ha'midbar, Freud, Generation Of The Wilderness, Hafetz Haim, Hillel, infant, insight, Joseph Telushkin, Leon Wieseltier, Mana, Shami, slave
Tetzevah : Varieties of Love
February 12, 2011
Keywords : arc, Danny DeVito, eternal light, freedom, John Lennon, light, love, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, memories, regular, Rhea Perlman, Robert Browning, synagogue, Taxi, tent, W. H. Auden
Terumah : Lessons From the Land of Egypt
February 5, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Ben Gurion, democracy, Egypt, election, ethics, Gaza, Germany, Hitler, Hosni Mubarak, Jordan, lifeboat, military, Muslim Brotherhood, revolution, Tunisia
Mishpatim : Why Rome Fell and We Might, Too
January 29, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Anton Chekhov, Benjamin Guggenheim, Christianity, civic virtue, Constantinople, Edward Gibbon, Egypt, Herman Cohen, John Jacob Astor, John Lukatz, lead, Mishpatim, physician Roman Empire, Rome Titanic, Tucson
Yitro : Holy, Holy, Holy, We’re No Angels
January 22, 2011
Keywords : angels, Christians, Ezekiel, forgiveness, Haiti, heels, Isaiah, kadosh, kosher, Mark Rosenthal, Moses, orphanage, pickles, prayers, prophet, salt, vision
Beshalach: Have A Little Faith in Haiti
January 15, 2011
Keywords : Boston, children, Christian, Detroit, Dona,earthquake, goodness, Haiti, Julia, Junior, kippah, Lewinsky LaFleur, lunch, Martin Luther King, Mitch Albom, orphanage, Port Au Prince, Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, save, Theodore Bikel
Bo: I Shall Not See Your Face Again
January 8, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Aaron, compassion, contradiction, face, firstborn, funeral, George Bernard Shaw, life, Moses, night, paniem, Pharaoh, Plague Of Darkness, tie
Vaera – Israel: Where Leaders Become Heroes and Heroes Make Leaders
January 1, 2011
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 1944, 1952, 2002, coffee, David Ben-Gurion, Hadera, hero, Israel, JJ Jonah, kibbutz, leader, Matan Dahan , Nazarian, Nazis, Negev, newspaper, Red Cross, role model, Starbucks, students, Terezin Ghetto, Uganda, Yoni Netanyahu, Zionism