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Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Abe Noble; angel; art zone; athlete; blessing; camp; children; daughter; dwell; Ephraim; exile; Guzik; Jacob; Joseph; love; Menashe; meter; parking; peace; Pico; purpose; relationship; retirement; righteous; Scheinbaum; shoes; stress; teenagers; vayechi; wicked
Vayigash – Have Israel, Will Travel December 23, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Advent; baptism; Catholic; CBS Studios; Christmas; church; commercialization; crucifix; Goshen; holiday; homily; Joseph; manger; mass; pluralism
Miketz – I Think He Meant Well December 16, 2017
Keywords : alliance; billiards; chess; culture; democrat; Dodgers; FMRI; Google; intention; Joseph; judge; New York; Planet Of The Apes; race; republican; Robert Sapolsky; Stanley Milgram; taxi; teaching; Temple Immanuel; throne; walking
Vayeshev – Hanukkah, Jerusalem and Joy December 9, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Adam; Athens; beauty; candle; cradle; darkness; death; Eden; fire; Hannukah; Hertzel; Jerusalem; Jewish Journal; King David; light; night; pain; Rome; siren; spark; stones; war
Vayishlach – Wounds of Spite December 2, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham Twerski; age; angel; bar; Ernest Hemmingway; Esau; filet mignon; hurt; Jacob; joke; limp; love; open; opposite; party; tribute; true; vulnerable; wounded; wrestling
Vayetzei – How To Be Thankful November 25, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 1863; Abraham Lincoln; broccoli; Esau; faith; generator; grateful; Haiti; Houston; Jacob; journey; Pilgrims; potential; thanks; Thanksgiving; turkey; well
Toldot – Training the Hands of Esau with the Voice of Jacob November 18, 2017
Keywords : agricultural; armies; arts; bridges; builders; Camille Paglia; Esau; fight; hands; hunter; IDF; Jacob; Kirk Douglas; Little Adam; Mark Halperin; mild; moon; outdoors; slavery; sports; stereotype; strong; study; sun; victories; Viking; voice; Woody Allen
Chayei Sara – Laughter that Hurts; Laughter that Heals November 11, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham; album; Aryeh Kaplan; Burning Bush; Carl Reiner; comedy; David Steinberg; Horace Walpole; Isaac; laugh; laughter; Mel Brooks; Moses; Sarah
Vayera – Antiquity, Community, and Diversity November 4, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : antiquity; bowling; community; diversity; fever; idea; living; longevity; memory; other; relationship; soup; stages; stranger; totalitarian
Lech-Lecha – Choosing Your Direction in Life October 28, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : ability; Abraham; Bible; Bill Gates; Canaan; college; confidence; leprosy; Lot; Maggid of Dubna; Mark Zuckerberg; mission; property; resources; school; shepherd; Sodom; success; trappings
Noach – What Does Judaism Have to Say About Harvey Weinstein? October 21, 2017
Keywords : Abraham; abuse; animal; children; Daniel; desecration; desire; dignity; distress; ego; grass; Harvey Weinstein; honor; husband; ideas; image; immorality; kabala; know; Nebuchadnezzar; Noah; outrage; politics; sex; sexual; soul; talons; violate; vulnerable; wife; women
Bereshit – The Problem with God’s Creation October 14, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 405; advice; Bereshit; cancer; chemotherapy; creation; difficult; disease; disruptive; driver; drug; education; evil; fruit; government; homicide; humanity; income; lifespan; literacy; lower back; mosquitoes; poverty; Steven Pinker; virus; war
Shmini Atzeret – Cradle to Grave October 12, 2017
Keywords : 1967; abyss; autobiography; birth; birthday; carriage; chronophobiac; coffin; cradle; death; future; grandparents; heartbeat; Joseph Gabayan; love; mourn; mourning; panic; Russian; sad; Speak, Memory; Vladimir Nabokov; yahrzeit; yizkor
3RD DAY OF SUKKOT – Two Communities: Past and Present October 7, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Berditchev; brownies; clouds; cookies; guest; Harrisburg; host; Isaac Luria; Kotzker Rebbe; Levi Yitzchok; manna; Max Beerbohm; Menachem Mendel; parochial; poor; Steipler Gaon; sukkah; tomatoes; water; Yaakov Yisrael Kanievsky
1ST DAY OF SUKKOT – LIVING WITH UNCERTAINTY October 5, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : catastrophe; habit; holiday; peak; prayer; Purim; repent; Shabbot; Shavuot; study; Sukkot; uncertainty
Yom Kippur – Meaning And Memory September 30, 2017
Keywords : art; beauty; Breslov; butterfly; cancer; death; Diego Rivera; forehead; Frida Kahlo; funeral; Gertrude Elion; grain; Kafka; loss; mad; meaninglessness; Mexico; Nachman; pain; Pavel Friedman; self-awareness; Theresienstadt; transactive memory; Yehudah HaNasi
Kol Nidre -The First And Last Mitzvah September 29, 2017
Keywords : 23andMe; Akiba; ark; Ashkenazi; chaos; children; congregations; Edith Singer; genetics; King Arthur; learn; Lithuania; meaning; merism; Merlin; Ogden; Poland; priests; Ravah; rock; Russia; Samara; scholarship; school; Scribe; Simon Greenberg; Tarfon; tragedy; Vikings
Ha’Azinu – The Cost of Community September 23, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : 911; Abraham; Argentina; Catholic; Christianity; communist; community; emergency; exile; Federation; hurricane; Jerry Seinfeld; Long Island; membership; Natan Sharansky; Netflix; Soviet Union; synagogue; tumor; Uber
1st Day of Rosh Hashanah – Thinking For Yourself September 21, 2017
Keywords : argue; basketball; bridge; Emo Philips; fault-lines; firing squad; helicopter; heretic; Hugh Thompson, Jr.; joke; Jonathan Sacks; Ken Burns; Malcom Gladwell; manly; Monica Lewinsky; My Lai massacre; Obamacare; opinion; sissy; stranger; team; underhanded; Vietnam; Wilt Chamberlain; YouTube
Erev Rosh Hashanah – Surrounded By Miracles September 20, 2017
Keywords : adultery; blind; earthquake; Einstein; enchanted; aphasia; eyes; figs; gossip; hand; internet; Israelites; language; Leonard Cohen; Leonardo da Vinci; mind; miracle; music; penny; Picasso; poetry; religion; religious school; Shakespeare; slave; steal
Nitzavim-Vayeilech – Ends and Beginnings September 16, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : Arthur Hertzberg; begin again; birth; circle; covenant; eternal; growth; homiletics; line; Max Webb; Mordecai Kaplan; questions; rebirth; refresh; renewal; repent; repentance; sermon; Sinai; sports; teaching
Ki Tavo – The State Of Your Soul September 9, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : ascetic; body; corporeal; doctors; down; earth; earth; earthquake; father; fire; flood; grave; hurricane; identity; intangible; mirror; physical; Rashi; spiritual; stethoscope; stone; stuff
Ki Teitzei – The Meaning of Amalek September 2, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : abhor; Alfred Nobel; Amalek; Amalekite; change; dynamite; Egyptian; Emerson; Grandma Moses; Immanuel Kant; Jonathan Sachs; Louis Armstrong; love; memory; mind; Nobel Prize; obituary; psychology; Sherwood Anderson
Shoftim – Judging Others, Judging Yourself August 26, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Blizzard Of Lies; clay; Dave Frishberg; defensive; ego; empathy; face; honest; jazz; judge; judgmental; kindness; lie; lies; luggage; openness
Re’eh – Torah, Truth and Trump August 19, 2017
Keywords : Charlottesville; cigarette; Elie Wiesel; fire; judge; killers; KKK; Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev; Leviticus; motivation; Nachmanides; Nazi; nice; obligation; Ramban; rebuke; repentance; silence; smoke; social media; swastika; victims
Eikev – Will The Future Be Jewish? August 12, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : 14th Century; AI; book; cars; chess; China; climate; CRISPR; disease; DNA; embryo; Facebook; Germany; Gilbert Godfrey; Google; Henry Adams; India; Johannes Gutenberg; machines; Moses; Nobel Prize; past; present; Singapore; tablets; Tamerlane; technology; type
Vaetchanan – Who Commands You? August 5, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : action; authority; college; commanded; elders; fear; kids; love; parents; police; prophets; rabbi; Rashi; scholars; social media; student; teachers; Uganda
Devarim – Two Pockets July 29, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : ashes; blackout; Camp Ramah; complain; dust; earthquake; Ezra; fame; humble; humility; Jonathan Sacks; Kaddish; Ojai; proud; seat; Simcha Bunim
Matot-Masei- The Mitzvah of Breaking Your Promise July 22, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : future; Gad; ideal; idols; Jordan; Median; Medianites; milk and honey; morality; Pinchas; power; real; Ruben; shepherds; vow; warning; wilderness; wives
Pinchas – Post – Zionism? July 15, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : 1947; 1967; Abraham Isaac Kook; Catch 67; cave; Egypt; France; G20; Hertzel; idol; idolaters; Isaiah Berlin; ISIS; Jordan; magic; messiah; Micha Goodman; myrrh; Pinchas; post-Zionism; priestess; safety; Simeon bar Yochai; six day war; slavery; Syria; vulgar; YouTube
Balak – Can You be a Prophet? July 8, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : baby; Balaam; Balak; blessings; bris; dog; Elijah; Ezekiel; Hertzel; Heschel; Jeremiah; Joan Didion; Korach; Martha's Vineyard; messiah; mohel; Noach; Pinchas; prophesy; prophet; Rashi; South; West; Yaakov Weinberg; Yitro
Chukat – Small Gestures July 1, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : brother; cars; complain; confession; driving; farm; folklore; gesture; kindness; Levi Yitzchok of Berditchev; minutes; Moses; note; parking; rock; Solomon; Westwood; wheat
Korach – Ego – Mostly Me June 24, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : arrogance; Book Of Morman; cousins; ego; Essau; Harold Schulweis; Hasidim; humble; humility; Ishmael; Jacob; Jacob; Jethro; Korach; modest; Moses; Smothers Brothers; Talmud
Beha’alotcha – Judaism, Racism and Reality June 10, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Aaron; Bill Mahar; black; Black Like Me; Britain; British; Cushite; discrimination; Dwight D. Eisenhower; Edinburgh; Ethiopian; gossip; John Howard Griffin; marry; Miriam; racism; schwarze; Scotland; slaves; Zipporah
Nasso – 50 years of Jerusalem June 3, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : 70 AD; Babylonians; bagel; book; David; Golani Brigade; hummus; Jerusalem; memory; physical; Ramban; Romans; spiritual; underground; Washington DC; watch; wedding
Shavuot II – Yizkor: Is There A World To Come?” June 1, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : 8th grade; atheist; bodies; body; Christopher Hitchens; classes; eternal; history; intimacy; justice; kids; love; mathematics; mourn; Rabbi Brad Artson; religion; Sam Harris; sex; science; soul; sounds; spirit; Talmud; teenager; truth; words
Bamidbar – Children of the Wilderness May 27, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : Agatha Christie; Andre Maurois; archaeologist; battles; children; community; complain; disease; Egypt; grown-up; guide; illness; Jerusalem; Joshua; map; Max Mallowan; Mosaic; Numbers; pain; priest; stroke; unhappiness; water; wilderness
Behar-Bechukotai – Jerusalem: 50 years of Unity May 20, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : 1967; cousin; Eliezer Ben-Yehuda; IDF; Israel; Jerusalem; journalist; Julie Bornstein; kotel; marathon; Mel Bornstein; peace; redemption; Russia; torah; war; western wall; Zion gate
Emor – Blasphemy and Free Speech May 13, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Berkeley; blasphemy; Britain; college; curse; cursing; evil; free speech; Helen Keller; Indonesia; Ireland; Jakarta; Job; listen; Mark Twain; offensive; Saudi Arabia; Stephen Fry; students; Talmud; words
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – A Sacred Fire May 6, 2017
Keywords : Aaron ; artist ; Aushwitz ; Autumn Harvest ; burning house ; creative ; destructive ; faith ; fire ; ghetto ; Holy Fire ; Isaiah ; Jean Cocteau ; Nazi ; Poland ; sacred ; Shapiro ; suffering ; Warsaw ; wind
Tazria-Metzora – TED: Have I Seen the Future? April 29, 2017
Keywords : Alzheimer's ; Bill Gates ; bonobos ; charity ; Churchill ; dirty jokes ; doctors ; Elon Musk ; evolution ; Haiti ; homes ; inventors ; investors ; Jeff Bezos ; Pope ; Rabbi Jonathan Sacks ; religion ; religious ; Sam Harris ; sleep ; TED ; trauma ; Vatican Museum ; virtual reality ; World Vision ; Yossi Vardi
Shmini- Wanderings April 22, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : diaspora; exile; journey; lost; Passover; Shavuot; soldier; stories; story; stranger; Sukkot; Tolkien; wander; wandering; wicked child; Zionism
Pesach VIII – Yizkor: The Meaning of Trees April 18, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Jason Fruithandler
Keywords : Adam; desert; Elie Wiesel; eternal; Eve; forest; fragile; fruit; furious; garden; Giving Tree; grief; human; knowledge; life; literature; parenting; pathetic fallacy; poem; psalmist; roots; Sequoia; shade; Shel Silverstein; Spring; tree; wind; yizkor
Pesach V – Pesach: Freedom, Family and Food April 15, 2017
Keywords : angel; ceremony; Christianity; Czar; Elijah; family; faith; fidelity; food; food; forest; freedom; frozen; honor; Jezebel; kashrut; Kings; leaven; matzo; meat; milk; pagen; Pesach; vegetables
Passover I – My Broken Face & How We See People April 11, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : Abraham Lincoln; autism; bandages; beauty; Beverly Wilshire Hotel; bleeding; blood; charity; damage; doctors; face; fight; funeral; gash; hungry; ICU; judge; lawyers; neurological; Nietzsche; nose; plastic surgeon; President; quadriplegic; repulsive; Samuel Johnson; Sheila Nazarian; shopping; tissue; tumult; UCLA; ugly; wedding
Tzav – Be Elijah April 8, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : band-aid; brothers; chariot; cup; Danny; door; Elijah; evil; fell; giving; hungry; messiah; Monastery; monk; Paul; Pesach; redemption; Seder; Talmud; tripped
Vayikra – Consecrating Our New Prayer Book April 1, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : avodah; change; comments; creativity; haggadah; Judy Fischer; poems; prayer; Ruth; siddur; sing; tune
Vayakhel-Pekudei – The Tabernacle: An artist and An Engineer March 25, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : artist; beautiful; beauty; Bezalel; camera; care; diamond; engineer; hand; jewelry; lunch; Plotnik; ring; rock; sanctuary; superficial; tabernacle; trivial
Tetzaveh – The Many Shades of Joy March 11, 2017
Keywords : anger; barren; cry; Esther; Everybody Loves Raymond; Hannah; imperfections; joke; joy; Knower Of Secrets; Mordechai; Purim; sadness; Shmuel; wholeness
Terumah – Three Heroes Reach 100: Kirk Douglas, Abe Zarem and Max Webb March 4, 2017
Keywords : Abe Zarem; age ; artist; atomic bomb; automatic oscillograph; Brooklyn; buildings; charming; Chicago; concentration camp; Esther; eunuch; experience; handsome; innocence; Issur Danielovitch; Jackie Robinson; Kirk Douglas; longevity; Manhattan Project; Max Webb; mentor; Nazi; old; Poland; Robert Oppenheimer; scientist; starve; survivor; vitality; wisdom; Xerox
Mishpatim – The Kind of Jews We Should Be February 25, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Mitchell Berkowitz
Keywords : Albanians; beggar; behavioral; community; contribution; debt; duty; family; fundraising; grateful; gratitude; half-shekel; learning; life; Mexicans; money; redemption; rites; rules; sacred; sacrifices; secret; studying; suffering; Ukrainians
Yitro – The Gift of Receiving February 18, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : anger; baseball; bread; burden; Dodgers; experience; Franklin Institute; fresh; gift; giving; gold coin; heart; Jerusalem Marathon; Jethrow; love; Moshe; Naftali Zvi of Ropshitz; natural; party; Philadelphia; Rabbi Yechiel; Rashi; receive; relevant; Rich Garcia; stale
Beshalach – Four Loves February 11, 2017
Keywords : beggar; care; concern; faith; Iris Murdoch; love; money; narcissism; nature; oneself; others; parents; Rabbi Ben Ezra; Robert Browning
Bo – Marking Time February 4, 2017
Keywords : Abraham Joshua Heschel; cathedral; clock; Egypt; launch; meditation; nissan; orbit; phone; rocket; sanctify; Shabbat; slave; song; space; space program; story; time
Vaera – Why Didn’t The Plagues Work? January 28, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Erez Sherman
Keywords : birth; blood; Egypt; empathy; frogs; guards; Hertzel; hospital; Merkel; mirror neurons; Moses; movies; mysteries; Nile; Pharaoh; plague; plagues; politics; Putin; secret service; shepherd; tomorrow; Vienna; Washington; water; Zalman Shazar
Shemot – America 2017: What We Hope For January 21, 2017
Keywords : Annie Hall; Battle of Agincourt; Bible; catastrophists; Constantinople; criticize; Egypt; encouragement; England; France; goodwill; humility; Hundred Year War; inauguration; iPhone; Istanbul; Joan Of Arc; Johannes Gutenberg; Moses; movable type; Ottoman Empire; praise; prayers; President Trump; Reformation; Renaissance; restaurant; Shakespeare; Tamerlane; Timur; waiter
Vayechi – Civil Rights: Then & Now January 14, 2017
Drash: Rabbi Nicole Guzik
Keywords : America; compassion; Egypt; exodus; freedom; immigrant; Jordan; Jordan Anderson; letter; Martin Luther King, Jr.; plantations; slavery; Stewart Robinson; stranger; suffer
Vayigash – The Version of Our Youth January 7, 2017
Keywords : agalaot; bloody coat; brothers; cow; eglah arufah; Egypt; Goshen; Jacob; Joseph; Judah; neck; Talmud; teaching; Torah; wagon