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Sh’lah L’kha – Reflections On My Years at Sinai
Keywords: Abraham Joshua Heschel, Akiba, Ayatollah, Bet Shirah, blessing, Caleb, Communist, community, Ellie Wiezel, family, floatilla, Friday Night Live, Gaza, health, Israel, Joshua, leap of action, Miami, milk, naval blockade, Nazi
Beha’alotcha – A White House Visit
Keywords: 1492, Anthony Julius, Don Yitzchak Abravanel, Emma Lazarus, England, exile, Ferdinand and Isabella, Independence Mall, Jewish Heratige Month, Memorial Day, miracle, Oliver Cromwell, Rahm Emanuel, Regina Spektor, Robert Pinsky, Sandy Kofax, Spain, statue,The New Colossus, Unknown Soldier, White House
Nasso – Wisdom is Easy; Change is Hard
Keywords: bad, change, Freud. good. habits, insight, Oprah, rationalization, regret, Samson, Socrates, soul, will, William James, wisdom
Bamidbar – How Do You Count?
Keywords: Bamidbar, census, count, freedom, give, giving, half shekel, numbers, Rabbi Sachs, Ralph Reznik, shamus, taxes
Behar-Bechukotai – A Lesson From My Father
Keywords: birthday, dialysis, father, G.K. Chesterton, holiday, Kadish, limitations, limits, love, medical ethics, Mother’s Day, Yohr Tzeit
Emor – The Divided Self
Keywords: argue, As A Driven Leaf, Avid, conflict, divided, doubt, Freud, Israel, Joseph Epstein, Hoshea, Jung, Milton Steinberg, poetry, R.D. Lang, Talmud, The Divided Self, The Red Book, Whitman, Yeats, Yom Kippur
Achrei Mot-Kedoshim – Unity for Israel
Keywords: acceptance, Aramains, Ethiopians, friends, Haftorah, Jesus, light, Mohammed, Muslim, orphanage, Philistines, Rick Warren, Robert Frost, Talmud, Theodor Herzl, Yom Ha’atzmaut
Tazria-Metzora – Religion and Morality
Keywords: Carl Becker, classic, dignity, goodness, The Heavenly City Of 18th Century Philosophers, Henry James, Hillel, kindness, Mark Twain, Martha Nussbaum, morality, Natural Law, Nature, Talmud, Voltaire
Schmini – Feit Saturday Morning Live: The Past and the Promise
Keywords: Yom Hashoah, Yom Ha atz Maoot, shoah, David, Solomon, Israel, Balfor Declaration, Anne Frank, Omair, redemption, destiny, covenant
Pesach 8th Day – Silent Memories
Keywords: kaddish, father, memory, memories, remember, shoah, state, Pesach, Europe, forget, holidays, Esther, Seder, Exodus, Joseph Yerushalmi, Zachor, Yad, Vashem, Yizkor