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Sivan Rahav Meir

Sep 5, 2017, 4:28 PM

When you go off to school

This column would never have been written were it not for Riki, my first-grade teacher. She didn't actually help me write it this week, but back then when I discovered my talent for writing and began publishing poems and...

Sep 4, 2017, 5:27 AM

My lefty’s legacy: a father’s wish for his son on his Bar Mitzvah

Remarks delivered to my son on his Bar Mitzvah on Saturday, September 2, 2017 52 years ago, next week, on September 9, 1965, a 28 year-old left-handed pitcher from Brooklyn, New York took the mound at Dodgers Stadium for the Los...

Esther Goldenberg

Sep 2, 2017, 1:49 AM

Who Do You Ask for Advice?

When I was in college, I spent one year studying at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. This was an amazing, eye-opening, growth and learning experience in so many ways beyond the classroom. One of the things I experienced was a...

Rachel Anisfeld

Sep 2, 2017, 1:45 AM

Hurricane Harvey and Parashat Ki Tetze

Underneath all the stuff, there is love. In Houston, large swaths of the population have lost almost all of their worldly goods. It is hard to even imagine such a scenario – no clothes, no toiletries, no home, no...

William Hamilton

Sep 1, 2017, 6:00 PM

Words hold weight, Works build momentum

“Thanks for speaking today about the founder of outdoor playgrounds” a guest teenager expressed following last Saturday morning’s service. His gratitude echoed the sweetness of last weekend’s opinion piece A Whisper in an Age of Shouting which warmly honored...

Sep 1, 2017, 9:17 AM

Ki Teitze – The Beautiful Captive

Ki Teitze starts with a beautiful captive, a man having two wives, a stubborn and rebellious son and a man hung a tree…what is the logic behind all these? כִּי-תֵצֵא לַמִּלְחָמָה, עַל-אֹיְבֶיךָ וּנְתָנוֹ יְהוָה אֱלֹהֶיךָ, בְּיָדֶךָ—וְשָׁבִיתָ שִׁבְיוֹ When thou goest forth...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Sep 1, 2017, 2:22 AM

Judaism and Social Justice

Judaism is a religion that promotes social justice. We are taught to be giving throughout the year. During the high holidays in the “Unetane Tokef” prayer we recite the words: “Repentance, Prayer and Charity annul the evil decree”. On...

Aug 31, 2017, 4:45 PM

Two types of hate

Egypt hated the Israelites out of fear, so they got over it; Amalek's irrational hatred will never end (Ki Teitzei)

Aug 31, 2017, 11:05 AM

A life-changing lesson from a refusenik in Riga [Parshat Ki Teitze]

This Shabbat, the Eleventh of Elul, marks 47 years to the day of one of the most transformative moments in my life, in the most unlikely of places and circumstances. It was on this date in September 1970 that...

Josie Glausiusz

Aug 30, 2017, 10:20 PM

The Torah's 'marry-your-rapist' law

It's rules like this one that taught her to question unjust laws, even when they are written in the Torah

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