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Vayechi – Still Waiting
December 26, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Adam, baby, burden, due date, executed, filet mignon, gender, last meal, moment, Mychal Copeland, Nachman of Breslov, original sin, patience, pizza, predict, pregnant, strawberries, waiting
Vayigash – Joseph’s Children
December 19, 2015
Keywords : amnesia, assimilation, Bernard Berenson, casket, cell phones, coffin, Ephraim, Esau, forgiveness, forgotten, history, Isaiah Berlin, Jacob, Jeffrey Salkin, Joseph, Lamentations, Manasseh, Moses, past, present, remembrance, righteous, slavery, tablets, text, Tisha B'Av, Yiddish
Miketz – Strength Through Spirit
December 12, 2015
Keywords : aisle, celebrate, darkness, Hanukkah, hid, Judah Maccabee, light, Maccabees, might, military, moon, oil, power, prayer, Rosh Chodesh, shabbot, temple
Vayeshev – Looking in the Mirror.
December 5, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Adam Galinsky, basketball, battle, candle, championship, chanukiah, charisma, Colorado, competition, cooperation, enthusiasm, Esau, Friend And Foe, hyena, Jacob, Joseph, Kobe Bryant, lights, Maccabees, mashiach, Maurice Schweitzer, messiah, murder, peace, reward, rugged, Sandy Hook, sleep, steep, student, toil, unsettled
Vayishlach – Motivational Gratitude
November 28, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : act, barter, blessing, body, brain, car accident, FaceBook, family, feel, gift, grateful, grocery, interview, LA Times, love, parking, Thanksgiving
Vayetzei– For You Were Strangers
November 21, 2015
Keywords : Abraham, All Things Considered, Allentown, Ben Hecht, Charles Dent, crisis, danger, enemy, evil, facts, fear, Holocaust Museum, Islam, Jacob, Japanese, Jihad, Liberty Bell, Muslim, National Public Radio, NPR, panic, persecution, Philadelphia, refugees, screeening, spies, Syria, Thanksgiving, vetting
Toldot – Journey to Israel and Azerbaijan
November 14, 2015
Keywords : Armenia, Avigdor Lieberman, Azari news, Azerbaijan, Baku, burka, City Of David, cycle of violence, Daniel Gordis, davka, Dead Sea Scrolls, economy, family, footsteps, funeral, guard, Heydar Aliyev, Iran, Jewish Museum, kosher, Louvre, lunch, metal detector, mountains, Mumbai, Muslim, paparazzi, Paris, Potemkin village, Quba, Richard Lakin, Riyadh, Russia, Shia, statue, Sunni, taxi, Time magazine, travel
Chayei Sara – For Our Veterans
November 7, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : army, bad, brave, Edmund Burke, evil, fighting, haggadah, heroes, IDF, Maccabees, pesach, Romans, Russia, shameful, soldier, war, wicked son, Yitzhak Rabin, Zionism
Vayera – Parenthood
October 31, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : Abraham, Amy Chua, children, Chinese, education, expectations, genius, Hagar, Isaac, Ishmael, letter, Martha Beck, mentors, mother, parenthood, parents, Sarah, Thomas Edison
Lech-Lecha – Mrs. Noah and Sarah
October 24, 2015
Keywords : Abraham, Abram, ark, Avivah Zornberg, Baruch Epstein, Emma Lazarus, female, Golda Meir, laughter, Lecha, male, man, Maryland, niece, Noach, Noah, righteous, Sarah, Sarai, Sidon, sons, Statue Of Liberty, teach, Torah Temimah, wives, woman, women
4th Time’s A Charm: God’s Fourth Try At Creating The World
October 17, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Adam, Babel, compassion, creation, destruction, dust, Eden, Eve, flood, garden, language, light, love, mercy, Noah, snake, tower, tree, vengeance, violence, well
Bereshit – Renewal
October 10, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : America, beginnings, birth, darkness, death, faith, immigrant, John Burroughs, month, moon, Nachman of Breslov, new, persecution, refugee, time, tragedy
Shmini Atzeret: Rabbi Judah’s Last Wishes
October 5, 2015
Keywords : biographies, coffin, death, dust, family, Genesis, instructions, Judah the Prince, legacy, mishna, shrouds, strife, Talmud, wealthy, widow, will, Yehudah HaNasi, Yizkor
Shabbat Chol HaMoed Sukkot – “Koufax and the American Jewish Dream”
October 3, 2015
Keywords : 1965, athletes, baseball, Bernie Sanders, country club, Don Drysdale, Elliot Cosgrove, insecure, Joseph Lieberman, Kennedy, October 6, pitcher, Sandy Kofax, Shawn Green, social progress, socialist, Solomon Schechter, sports, Vice President, World Series, Yom Kippur
First Day of Sukkot: A Holiday Human and Divine
September 28, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : build, celebrate, clouds, clouds of glory, forgiven, holiday, human, manna, miracles, Miriam's well, oneness, Pesach, shade, Shavuot, stars, sukkah, Sukkot, supernatural, water, wilderness, windows
Ha’Azinu – How We Grow
September 26, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : action, bunching, celebrate, E. M. Forster, holidays, Isaac Stern, joy, lessons, Moses, nostalgia, pain, planning, psychiatry, psychology, Rachael, search, self-examination, , self-expression, Shlomo, sin, sing, Solomon, suffer, Sukkot, therapy, wisdom, Yom Kippur
Kol Nidre – Forgiveness
September 22, 2015
Keywords : Abraham Joshua Heschel, ashamed, Atlanta, bioethics, brother, Calvin Coolidge, candle, Edith Piaf, elevator, flawed, forgive, forgiven, forgiveness, guilty, health, hotel, IRS, mistakes, morality, Navy SEAL, peace, Pentagon, regret, Rembrandt, repent, Sherlock Holmes, sin, sweetness, Yom Kippur
Vayeilech – Destinations
September 19, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : anticipation, art, baby, child, chuva, college, daughter, destination, Hafetz Hayim, high school, Joshua, journey, life, lunch, nest, Pharaoh, Poland, real, repentance, return, toddler, Tony Blair, Yom Kippur
2nd Day of Rosh Hashanah – What We Treasure About Our Tradition
September 15, 2015
Keywords : American Jewish University, apologize, bless, Bradley Artson, bread, Camp Ramah, candle, chosen, Christopher Hitchens, Communists, community, David Gordis, Elie Wiesel, extinction, Fear No Evil, grunts, humor, Jacob Artson, Jonah, Kol Nidre pledge, Lincoln, Natan Sharansky, offering, particularism, Pascal, psychoanalyze, question, Rashi, responsibility, ritual, sacrifice, Sam Harris, Samara Wolpe, Simon Greenberg, slaves, solidarity, Soviet Union
1st Day of Rosh Hashanah – Ahavath Yisrael – Loving Israel
September 14, 2015
Keywords : argument, Belgrade, calf, Christian, David, Ezekiel, government, indignation, Irving Goldberg, Isaiah, Jeremiah, land, Lincoln, love, mountains, Muslim, peace, Rabbi Akiva, self-criticism, Sinai, state, strength, testify, traitor, United Nations, Vuk Jeremic, wilderness, words, Zion
Erev Rosh Hashanah – What You Get When You Give
September 13, 2015
Keywords : Adam Grant, axe, camping, CEO, corporate, deeds, fire, Give And Take, givers, giving, James Hodgeson, John Locke, kindness, litvak, lumberjack, matchers, mitzvah, monastery, Mrs. Woodberry, Salt Lake City, Sherlock Holmes, takers, Utah, Watson, wood, words
Nitzavim – How to Prepare for Rosh Hashanah
September 12, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : angry, change, choose life, chuva, club, cook, cooking, gratitude, holiday, honesty, hurtful, kind, Kirk Douglas, preparation, repentance, Rosh Hashanah, table, tofu, vegetarian, Whole Foods, Yom Kippur
Ki Tavo – Understanding Backwards
September 5, 2015
Keywords : asleep, awake, change, cold, DayQuil, Dr. Schmidt, drugs, ears, eyes, farmer, first fruits, jealousy, Levites, meaning, mind, play hurt, reality, rooster, Rosh Hashanah, shofar, temple
Ki Teitzei – Everything is Torah
August 29, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : classic, Congo, empty, essay, Hasidic, Isaiah, Joseph, kidnap, midrash, pit, Soloveitchik, soul, torah, trust, war, water, water, written
Shoftim – Teaching our Children to Judge
August 22, 2015
Keywords : Canaanites, children, coach, crew, educate, enemies, fire, gossip, Jack Miles, judge, judgment, Judges, kings, prayer, sages, savage, teachers, team
Re’eh – Body and Soul. Preparing for the High Holidays
August 15, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Alzheimer's, body, camp, cancer, cell phone, chemo, chicken, dementia, Elul, fire, fruit, high holidays, ice cream, idolatry, inn, innkeeper, kapparot, kashrut, notebook, physical, sacrifice, slaughter, soul, spiritual, trees, volunteer
Eikev – Where Is My Reward?
August 8, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : commandments, community, e-mail, food, grain, Jose ben Kisma, Maharsha, oil, rain, reward, reward, students, supermarket, synagogue, technology, trope, wine
Nachamu – Guard Your Soul Carefully
August 1, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : aspiration, breath of life, chances, children, family, favorite, friends, guard, identity, Jordan, memory, nefesh, parents, prudent, reckless, seriousness, soul, verse
Devarim – Iran: A Jewish Way of Arguing
July 25, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Africa, AIPAC, Bar Kokhba revolt, baseless hatred, battle, Betar, certainty, Chaim Weizmann, calamities, Congress, Iran, Jerusalem, Jordan, Kishinev, mishnah, mistakes, Palestinians, spies, Theodor Herzl, tisha b'av, Uganda Plan, Zionist Congress
Matot-Masei – Where Is Home?
July 18, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : AIPAC, Ba'al ha-Turim, Babylon, bitterness, bread, Columbia University, CUFI, foolish, Greeks, Hamas, Hassan Rouhani, Hezbollah, home, Iran, Jonathan Sacks, Joseph Singer, New York, palm trees, peace, Philadelphia, pray, Promise Land, Roman Empire, Ron Dermer, Ruhollah Khomeini, Syracuse, Third Reich, travel log, war, water, wise
Pinchas – The Torah as Mirror
July 11, 2015
Keywords : 1913, anxiety, fear, genius, isecurity, Korach, Louis Armstrong, mirror, New Oleans, New Year's, Paul Davis, pe'ah, pistol, police, poor, psalms, rich, shot, trumpet, violence, worry, Yosef Kanefsky
Balak – The Meaning of America
July 4, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : 1994, Abraham Lincoln, America, Argentina, Buenos Aires, disaster, Ellis Island, embassy, immigrants, inclusion, Iran, Jewish tour, Leo Frank, Michael Oren, Moishe House, Native Americans, New York, Richard Nixon, Ulysses Grant, worry
Chukat — Treading Water
June 27, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : grief, Kirk Douglas, Koby Mandell, life, Miriam, misery, Moses, mourning, Peretz Rodman, rock, sadness, Seattle, Seth Mandell, Sherri Mandell, shiva, sorrow, Special Olympics, suffering, tragedy, walk, water, well
Korach — When Holiness Kills
June 20, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Aaron, Aviram, Dathan, dirt, Egypt, Eliezer, holiness, humility, incense, killed, Korach, Levites, Leviticus, Moses, mud, power, sacrifice, South Carolina, strength, tabernacle, tragedy
Sh’lach — Leadership
June 13, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : dance, Ethiopia, fear, Game Of Thrones, IDF, Khrushchev, kings, leaders, leadership, Moses, prayer, president, Ralph Nader, Russia, scouts, Sharansky, Stalin, Svetlana Stalin, Ukraine, Uzbekistan
Beha’alotcha — Our Appetites
June 6, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : asaf soof, burgers, complain, complaint, cows, crave, David Brenner, find, freezer, home, keys, lack, livestock, meals, meat, money, search, sheep, vacation, vegetarian
Nasso — Overestimate Yourself!
May 30, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : coat, concentration camps, crosswind, Delilah, flying, Judges, Lincoln, math, memory, nazir, nudnik, over-estimate, past, philistine, purpose, Samson, self-esteem, tapes, thesis, Viktor Frankl, YouTube
Shavuot II – Yizkor: The Unknown Sacrifices
May 25, 2015
Keywords : ancestors, battle, children, continuity, gratitude, joy, Memorial Day, memory, mourn, parents, proof, remember, sacrifice, soldiers, sorrow, witness, Yizkor
Shavuot I – Shavuot & the Adult Bnot Mitzvah Ceremony
May 24, 2015
Keywords : Abraham, agricultural, barley, contradiction, dairy, differences, figurative, first fruits, harvest, intermarriage, literalist, Ruth, women
Bamidbar — Rabbinic Installation & Renewal
May 23, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : betroth, count, crying, Guzik, hire, intern, internship, interview, king, married, musicians, New York, notes, parents, Pico, play, pray, renewal, Robertson, Sherman, siblings, students, Syracuse, ten years
Emor — Our Mother’s Voices
May 9, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : bedroom, circumcised, convent, cradle, historians, kitchen, lullaby, Moshe, mothers, Napoleon, voice
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim — The Spirituality of Imperfection
May 2, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham Joshua Heschel, Abraham Lincoln, Baltimore, broken, character, child, clothes, despair, fight, garment, gossip, guest, healer, heroes, Jacob, Kotzker Rebbe, ladder, leaping, loser, Miriam, Nepal,pain, pain, perfect, perfection, sadness, suffering, traitor, vessels, wearing, Winston Churchill
Tazria-Metzora — Love and Gossip
April 25, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : Abraham, Aharon Lichtenstein, attack, balance, celebrities, complain, couples, escape, externals, gossip, holiness, husbands, immunization, Israel, Joseph Soloveitchik, love, lovingly, medical, Miriam, Moshe, refuge, scholars, skin disease, Theodor Herzl, victims, vision, wives, Zionism
Shmini — Eli, Eli — My God, My God
April 18, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : 1921, 1943, British Army, Eli, Eli, firing squad, Hannah Szenes, Hungary, Israel, mother, Palestine, paratrooper, poetry, prison, shoah, torture
Pesach VIII — Someone Is Watching You
April 11, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : alone, benevolent, care, community, cry, Egypt, faith, faith, golden calf, I, Korach, love, orphans, rely, safety, slave, spies, widows, wilderness, yizkor
Pesach I — Cast Your Bread Upon the Waters
April 4, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : bank, blessing, Boston, dock, elegance, extravagance, fear, freedom, gambling, generosity, hat, Iran, love, memories, memory,money, open hand, Rabbi Israel of Konitz, ship, shipyard, Song of Songs, stereotypes, stock, uncle, wedding, Winnebago
Tzav — Try Harder
March 28, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Ben Franklin, blue collar, Chicago, cleaning, crumb, Czar, effort, Highland Park, library, Pesach, Rabbi Steven Leder, Rabbi Vernon Kurtz, Russia, sacrifice, satisfaction, understanding, William Wordsworth, work
Vayikra — Cleanse and Detox
March 21, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : candle, carbohydrate, chametz, cleaning, cleansing, cooking, crackers, crumb, dishes, free, ISIS, leavened bread, liberated, Mark Twain, Nigeria, Passover, pasta, pesach, Rav Papa, Shlomo Carlebach, Syria
Vayakhel-Pekudei — Habits of the Heart
March 14, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : dwelling, flower, heart, house, mishkan, openness, petals, relationships, Shabbat, tabernacle, willing, willingness, wisdom, wise
Ki Tisa – AIPAC, Netanyahu’s Speech and Iran
March 7, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham Lincoln, AIPAC, alarm, alliance, America, argue, argument, Benjamin Chappell, Christians, contention, creativity, crime, crossroads, disagreement, dynamism, Emma Lazarus, enemies, focus groups, George Washington, Israel, Jonathan Sarna, Lawrence Kushner, New York, outsider, persecution, Pledge of Allegiance, police, president, prime minister, Puritan,sick, Silicon Valley, Statue Of Liberty, tensions, weakening, Western Wall
Tetzaveh – The Speech I Plan to Give to AIPAC
February 28, 2015
Keywords : 1956, Aharon Appelfeld, AIPAC, America, Assyria, authority, brevity, Brooklyn, build, Chabad, counseling, demonic, diplomacy, enrichment, Europe, evil, freedom, history, kill, nation, nuclear, republicans, restraint, statue, Talmud, teach, telegram, torah, torture, war
Terumah – The Miracle of Choice
February 21, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : aliyah, anti-Semitism, cemetery, choice, congress, Copenhagen, Europe, Frances Greenberg, fear, France, graves, Israel, London, Nazis, Netanyahu, Paris, protection, security, Theodor Herzl
Mishpatim – Ahavat Olam — Eternal Love
February 14, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham, act, books, chocolate, creation, danger, deeds, enacted, feel, fight, flowers, God, hearts, humanity, Isaac, Israel, Jacob, Leah, love, music, Rachael, Rebecca, romantic, Sarah, song, story, synagogue, Valentine's Day
Beshalach – The Magic of Music
January 31, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : az yashir, community, Deborah, desert, fined, Miriam, Moses, music, psalms, reading, redemption, sea, shirah, sing, singing, song
Bo – Cellphones in Synagogues
January 24, 2015
Keywords : address, book, boredom, browser, cell phone, Celtics, child, communications, darkness, deputize, distraction, Egypt, e-mail, England, focus, ideas, IQ, journalist, letter, memory, memento, Patriots, pen, picture, Rabbi Simon Greenberg, Red Sox, sanctuary, screen, sermon, sports, stationary, synagogue, time, video, Zadie Smith
Vaera – Hardened Hearts
January 17, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : alone, bad, children, Ezekiel, hard heart, heal, loneliness, love, Mark Twain, Martin Luther King, Nile, pain, Pharaoh, Reverend Murray, suffering
Shemot – Western Values and the Charlie Hebdo Attack
January 10, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : AP,Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Boko Haram, Book Of Mormon, Brandeis University, censorship, Charlie Hedbo, CNN, crude, categories, Death of Klinghoffer, distinctions, Egyptian, hateful, hurtful, juvenile, Lasana Batili, Mali, Moses, Muslim, New York Times, offensive, opera, Paris, religion, Twitter
Vayechi – America in the New Year
January 3, 2015
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : 2015, America, America In Retreat, Bill Gates, Bret Stephens, business, Congress, empire, English, freedom, grateful, history, holiday, Jesus, law, Lincoln, Mandarin Chinese, military, Napoleon, New Year's, pessimistic, politician, predictions, technology, threats, United States, web