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Rabbi Nachman had a special dish which he used for the Sabbath loaves. It had belonged to his own master, Rabbi Lev of Grenoble, and it occupied a prominent place in his home.
December 2019Sunbeams
June 2019It is an illusion to suppose that a dictator makes himself; at most he seizes an opportunity made for him by passive, stupid, incompetent, and, above all, unsatisfied and fearful men.
June 2019
Featuring Stephen R. Schwartz, Parker J. Palmer, Gloria Baker Feinstein, and more.
June 2019excerpted from The Diary Of A Young Girl
One good thing has come out of this: as the food gets worse and the decrees more severe, the acts of sabotage against the authorities are increasing.
June 2019
Sunbeams
October 2018Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed.
October 2018
Featuring Philip Berrigan, Genie Zeiger, Daniel Berrigan, and more.
October 2018The Wandering Jew
There was once a Jew who had been wandering for hundreds of years in search of his death.
October 2018Selected Poems
When we found out our daughter had gone deaf, / I did not question God’s fairness
— from “Falling From The Sky”
October 2018The Natural Order Of Hebrew School
A low-grade, persistent terror plagued me throughout the summer before sixth grade, because in June I’d found out I was to spend the next year in Rabbi Friedberg’s class at my Orthodox Jewish Hebrew school.
October 2018
The Holiness Hidden Within The World
Rabbi Rachel Timoner On Rediscovering Judaism
Our God is the God of the widow and the orphan and the stranger, a God who says, “If you harm them, their cries will reach me.”
October 2018
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