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Ki Tavo – Understanding Backwards
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
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
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
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?
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
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
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?
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
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
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