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Vayigash: Tradition and Inheritance
Keywords: Beverly Hills, blessing, books, brother, children, classes, education, generation, Golda Mendelson, kabbalah, learn, library, masoret, outgrow, parents, school, Sinai Akiba, taller, teachers
Vayeshev : Israel and Iran: Hanukkah and Purim
Keywords: 1948, cable, dangerous, Esther, FaceBook, fast, France, Hanukkah, Iran, Israel, Maccabees, news, North Korea, opinion, politics, power, powerless, Purim, slavery, social media, speak, talk show, threat, United States,word fast
Miketz : How Joseph Survived
Keywords: bow, bowing, compassion, Cyril Connolly, dreams, Emmanuel Levinas, empathy, egotistical, faith, gifted, handsome, humility, insensitive, jail, Joseph, Potiphar, prison, prisoner, promising, slavery, teenager, vain
Vayishlach: Why Keep Kosher?
Keywords: animals, archaeological, death, eat, entitlement, every day, fish, food, fork, gratitude, health, hybrids, hypocrite, imperfect, Jacob, kashrut, King Henry II, knife, kosher, limp, meal, meat, Philistine, pig bones, principle, restaurant, shrimp, slaughter, spirit, sausage, talk, Thomas Becket, waffles
Vayetzei : Achieving Multiple Personalities
Keywords: back, Borges, definitions, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, dream, highest self, instincts, Jacob, Leah, Lorenz, many, many selves, me, multiple selves, myself, Naruda, poems, Quartet, Rachael, Somerset Maugham, twin, Whitman
Toldot : How to Deserve a Blessing
Keywords: Abraham, blessing, Carl Reiner, egg, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, idols, Isaac, Jacob, Mel Brooks, nose, parent, potential, shower, Terach, time, Whitehead
Chayei Sara: What Makes a Life?
Keywords: Abraham, angels, bromide, change, contradictory, convert, Dr. Phil, grandchildren, Hagar, Haran, Isaac, journey, Life Of Sarah, mistakes, Oprah, proverb, Sarah, Tzadik, values, wisdom, Yshmael
Chayei Sara: What Makes a Life?
Keywords: Abraham, angels, bromide, change, contradictory, convert, Dr. Phil, grandchildren, Hagar, Haran, Isaac, journey, Life Of Sarah, mistakes, Oprah, proverb, Sarah, Tzadik, values, wisdom, Yshmael
Vayera: Mitzvot Thai Style
Keywords: Abraham, AJWS, American Jewish World Service, Angela Maddahi, Bangkok, beauty, Buddha, Buddhism, Burma, Cambodia, challah, charity, child slavery, city, dreams, Facebook, Ghana, graciousness, Hong Kong, human rights, Joseph, land rights, literacy, Liberia, Muslim, NGO, Nigeria, poor, poverty, Ruth Messinger, Sodom, statues, Sudan, Thailand, travel, Twitter, village, war widows, wealth
Lech Lecha: Masked and Unmasked
Keywords: Abraham, broken, Canaan, Egypt, famine, Hagar, mask, masks, October, Pharaoh, plague, Purim, Rabbi Jack Riemer, Sarah, sister, weak, wife, Yom Kippur