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Yitro : Standing Again at Sinai
Keywords: Aleph, apodictic, arguing, casuistic, change, changing, covenant, defiance, hiding, inquiry, Isaiah, Judith Plaskow, laws, once, silence, silences, Sinai, Stephen Sondheim, talking, tribal, Vladimir Nabokov, why, women
Beshalach : Tu B’Shvat and the Tree of Life
Keywords: aloneness, , ab, book, butter bread, buxar, carob, David Ben-Gurion, arden, Hayim Nahman Bialik , indoors, intellectual, Leon Pinsker, natural, natural world, nature, outside, poets, Psalms, school room, Spain, study hall, tree, tree, Tu Bishvat, Wine, Women, And Death, Zionism, Zionist
Bo : Plagues, Ancient and Modern
Keywords: achievement, ambition, America, Barry Bonds, Benjamin Franklin, Bush, cheating, children, ego, Egyptians, finance, guns, humility, individualism, justice, Kennedy, L.A. Times, Lance Armstrong, lawsuit, lie, mercy, music, Oprah Winfrey, plague, plagues, ruthless, schools, ociety, sports, touchdown, Tour de France
Vaera : Exodus and Revolution
Keywords: candle, civil rights, dissatisfaction, Egypt, Exodus And Revolution, fight, freedom, history, hospital, Martin Luther King, Jr., Michael Walzer, NAACP, operations, Rabbi Harold Schulweis, Rabbi Yisroel Salanter, revolution, revolve, slavery, struggle, unhappiness, war
Friday Night Live: Burning the Candle
Keywords: Buddha, Buddhism, Buddhist, candle, civil rights, darkness, dissatisfaction, dissatisfied, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Henri Matisse, hospital, Jacob, Nirvana, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Rabbi Harold Schulweis, satisfied. seeking. Shimon Peres, strive, struggle
Shemot : Why Did the Egyptians Hate the Jews?
Keywords: alarm clock, anti-Semitism, Brooklyn, Charleston, communication, conscience, Deborah Tannen, distrust, Egyptians, Exodus, genocide, hatred, Israelites, Joseph, judgment, Maurice Samuel, Pharaoh, Rebbe Nachman of Breslov, Shakespeare, slavery, suspicion, Winter break
Vayechi : Joseph’s Choices
Keywords: choice, coat, corn, destiny, dominate, dreamer, dreams, Egypt, embalmed, faith, fate, Goshen, hope, Jacob, jail, Joseph, Pharaoh, Potiphar, pragmatism, realism, slavery, stars, successor
Vayigash : Is It God’s Fault, Society’s Fault Or Our Fault?
Keywords: Abel, baby, blame, Cain, cell phone, exhonerate, fix, God, heal, hurt, individual, joke, Joseph, Sandy Hook, school, shooting, society, violence
Miketz : Generations
Keywords: candles, Chanukah, Hannukah, courage, darkness, faith, forgiveness, guns, miracle, Newtown, Rosh Chodesh, tragedy, trust
Vayshev : What Makes a Prison?
Keywords: Alexandre Dumas, Anne Frank, Chanukah, Chanukia, coat, Count of Monte Cristo, dreamer, dreams, freedom, Joseph, Lompoc, Natan Sharansky, philosophy, prison, Rachael, Reb Aryeh Levin, resources, Three Musketeers, tunic, Tzadik of Jerusalem, Wystan Hugh Auden