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Emor — Our Mother’s Voices
Keywords: bedroom, circumcised, convent, cradle, historians, kitchen, lullaby, Moshe, mothers, Napoleon, voice
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim — The Spirituality of Imperfection
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Keywords: dwelling, flower, heart, house, mishkan, openness, petals, relationships, Shabbat, tabernacle, willing, willingness, wisdom, wise
Ki Tisa – AIPAC, Netanyahu’s Speech and Iran
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