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Chayei Sara : Does Religion Make You Healthier?
Keywords: AIDS, Alzheimer’s, cancer, cholesterol, community, doctor, Duke University, happier, Harold Koenig, health, healthier, heart disease, Methuselah, New York, Oxford, religion, Robert Putnam, volunteer, vote
Vayera : Defining Normalcy
Keywords: Abraham, angels, autism, blessing, boxes, Ezra, grieve, help, heroes, Moses, normal, role-model, Tom Fields-Meyer, variety, Vista Del Mar
Lech-Lecha : A Place That I Will Show You
Keywords: Abraham, Canaan, direction, Ed Feinstein, footstep, GPS, Israel, Jerusalem, lost, Maggid of Dubno, Or Kastim, parents, reward, Samara, Tel Aviv
Noach : Prayer: What is it Good For?
Keywords: 2000 Year Old Man, Abraham Joshua Heschel, Albert Rosenblatt, Carl Reiner, hearing, listening, Max Horowitz, Mel Brooks, Noah, Phil, prayer
Bereshit : Are We Better Than Animals?
Keywords: angels, animals, Cervantes, chag, death, Don Quixote, dust, emptiness, Gerrer Rebbe, gold, nothingness, programmed, questions, uselessness, vanity
Schmini Atzeret : The One Who Remembers
Keywords: Abraham, Geshem prayer, immortality, Isaac, Jacob, Marcel Proust, memory, Moses, remember, William Shakespeare, Yizkor
Bereshit : Is There a Time For Everything?
Keywords: blessing, bodilessness, body, desert, eat, eating, gift, harvest, peach, physical, soul, spirit, sukkot, T.S. Elliot, yom kippur
Yom Kippur : A Distant Glow
Keywords: baseball, car, death, Derek Parfit, future, glow, heaven, jokes, kaddish, Philadelphia, Phillies, Robert Frost, Shlomo Carlebach, stars, Steve Jobs, yizkor
Kol Nidre : Changing Your Past
Keywords: Abraham Lincoln, aphasic, desert, dinner, family, father, future, Horace Greeley, J.L. Austin, joke, mother, past, Sidney Morgenbesser, stroke, Theodor Herzl, Vaudeville
Beshalach : Looking Back
Keywords: Amos Funkenstein, anger, courage, ego, empathy, energy, fence, focus, impatience, Mark Twain, Mel Brooks, memory, moment, moods, mouse, patience, peace, perfection, Persian weddings, procrastination, sundials, Tom Sawyer, trait, wisdom