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Vayikra – Israel and America: The Torah’s View
Keywords: AIPAC, America, angry, Facebook, Iran, Israeli government, leader, newspaper, opinion, public policy, reaction, sacrafice, Solomon, technology, television, think, thought, Vayikra
Vayakhel-Pekudei – Are We Commanded to Care?
Keywords: America, California, care, caring committees, donations, donkey, faith, giving, Good Samaritan, Hassidic Master Rabbi Levi Yitzchak of Berditchev, Laurie Levenson, law, Midean, Moses, palendrome, paralyzed, Pesach, suffering, Supreme Court, values, wine
Ki Tisa – The Secret Sin of the Golden Calf
Keywords: attention, Burning Bush, George Bernard Shaw, Golden Calf, impatience, information, Katherine Hepburn, Malcom Gladwell, Midian, Moses, nature, Philadelphia Story, speed dating, technology, Torah, trust, wisdom
Tetzavah – Joy to the World
Keywords: amalek, celebration, comedy, Dave Barry, joy, justice, laughter, Maurice, Samuel, Megillah, pain, purim, rememberance, Samson Raphael Hirsch, Shabbat Zakhor, Talmud, Yitzchak
Terumah – What Do You Carry in Your Ark?
Keywords: Alan Paton, Arc Of The Covenant, broken, Cillford Odets, fragments, grandfather, heart, Hemingway, pain, Rabbi Alexandre, tablets, Vaudeville, Wilder, wounded
Mishpatim – How Less is Often More
Keywords: census, comics, Shabbat Shekelim, shekel, sisterhood, talents, Wonder Woman
FNL Sermon – The Definition of Love
Keywords: H.G. Wells, love, pain, Rebecca West, soul, Taxi, Valentine’s Day, women
Yitro – Are We Commanded to Believe?
Keywords: ambition, belief, commandment, covet, history, interpretation, language, mitzvah, nature, Sinai, soul, worship
B’shalah – The Nature of Beauty and the Beauty of Nature
Keywords: Auschwitz, Avatar, Haiti, idolatry, Israelites, mistake, Moshe Greenberg, natural forces, nature, pantheist, Stars, stone, tree of life, Tu B’Shvat, wood, worship, Yehezkel Kaufmann
Bo – For My Daughter
Keywords: ages, Bat Mitzvah, child, Jeremiah, parents, Plague Of Darkness, pneumonia, Samara, Torah, watch, watching