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Vaera – Blood and Beasts — Plague Karma
Keywords: dry cleaner; Egyptians; karma; measure for measure; plagues; slaves
Shemot – The Brand Plucked From The Fire
Keywords: Abrahamic Faiths Initiative (AFI); Auschwitz; holocaust; kosher; liberators; midwives; Pope; Puah; Rome; Shifra; survivors
Vayechi – Clarity With God And With Each Other
Keywords: brothers; dream; Egypt; Jacob; Joseph; mind; philosophy; pit; silence; solipsism; words
Vayigash – The Sin of Distance
Keywords: Albert Rosenblatt; distance; drone; friction; John Keegan; Joseph; Judah; Mel Brooks; minyan; Qassem Soleimani
Terumah – “Love Jewish Style”
Keywords: Abraham, child, clothe, dreams, Fiddler On The Roof, guilt, love, parent, rhetoric, romantic, sorrows, Valentine
Mishpatim – “Membership and Community”
Keywords: Alfred Whitehead, ashamed, Binyamin Lau, children, choice, community, destiny, fail, family, fate, gathering, Hanukkah, Hillel, hypocrite, Irving Greenberg, membership luncheon, Naomi, past, politician, politics, Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik, Russian, Ruth, support, villiage, Yitz Greenberg
Yitro – “Loving God or Your Neighbor – Which Comes First?”
Keywords: Abraham, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Azerbaijan, commandment, father, honor, idolatry, insult, mother, murder, obligation, parents, Simon Greenberg, stranger, visit
Beshalach – You Can Take It With You
Keywords: ancestors, ark, bones, check, generation, gold, Heaven, Joseph, prodigy, Rashi, receipts, Saul Lieberman, seminary, silver, song, wealthy, words
Bo – Our Mission Is More Than Survival
Keywords: Auschwitz, Clive James, counselor, credit card, education, Edward Abbey, Fiji, jungle, Leo Baeck, morality, parents, peril, Pesach, politics, survival, survived, threat, tiger
Vaera – What Makes A Leader Great: The Example of Moses
Keywords: Alan Paton, candidate, Chaim Weizmann, challenge, Egyptian, election, history, justice, lead, leadership, Martin Luther King, Jr., Median, scars, South Africa, Theodor Herzl