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Author of "Embracing Auschwitz" and "Mensch•Marks: Life Lessons of a Human Rabbi - Wisdom for Untethered Times." Winner of the Rockower Award, the highest honor in Jewish journalism and 2019 Religion News Association Award for Excellence in Commentary. Musings of a rabbi, journalist, father, husband, poodle-owner, Red Sox fan and self-proclaimed mensch, taken from essays, columns, sermons and thin air. Writes regularly in the New York Jewish Week and Times of Israel.

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Friday, May 30, 2008

Masechet Cyberspace #8 - Can You Count in a Minyan Online?

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The official position of the Rabbinical Assembly can be found in full here , and the conclusions are as follows: 1. A minyan may not be cons...

Are You An Optimist?

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Last week’s curse-filled, depressing portion, prompted a wonderful d’var Torah by our bar mitzvah (see it below) and further discussion on J...
Monday, May 26, 2008

Memorial Day, Immigration Reform and Emma Lazerus

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In honor of Memorial Day and keeping in mind the current debate over immigration reform, i reprint here the famous poem, “The New Colossus,”...
Friday, May 23, 2008

What is Lag B'Omer" (Spiritual Web Journey)

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LAG B’OMER falls on Tuesday (for 2009). No Jewish holiday has more obscure origins and diverse explanations. About the easiest thing to expl...
Thursday, May 22, 2008

Masechet Cyberspace #7 - The Horrors of Horace and Other Abuses

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SOME RECENT ABUSES OF THE INTERNET… 1) Facebook and MySpace Scandals: Horrors at Horace and Megan Meier’s Suicide Facebook has...
Friday, May 16, 2008

Masechet Cyberspace #6 - A Netiquette Primer

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An entirely new ethical field is growing regarding proper online behavior. A nice summary of some of the issues can be found at http://digi...

Why should a non-observant teen take SATs on Sunday?

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There is a little tip that I want to share with our teens: take your SATs and SAT2s on Sunday, rather than the traditional Saturday date. It...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008

Jerusalem of Gold…and Love (Web Journey)

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With Lag B’Omer coming up next week, and Jerusalem Day soon to follow, this week’s web journey takes us back to a place, and a song, that ca...

The National and the Natural

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Last week I had the opportunity to lead a Learner’s Service, focusing on how our prayers transport us to the land of Israel. As we journey...

No More "Three-Day" Jews

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The Jewish Week: May 14, 2008 If there were a graveyard for the outmoded, it would be filled with typewriters, telephone dials, shortwave ra...
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Friday, May 9, 2008

Masechet Cyberspace #5: Sources on God, Judaism and the Internet

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Sources on God, Judaism and the Internet 1) Rabbi Avraham Ya’akov of Sadigora (19th century) “You can learn something from everything: o Fro...

Tattoo or Not Tattoo: That is the Question

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Last Shabbat we had a fascinating discussion on this recent article from Ha'aretz . The article details a moving account of how the adu...

What's So Jewish About Mother's Day (A Web Journey)

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(This web journey is a Shabbat-O-Gram “classic” – my apologies for those links no longer working) A man calls his mother in Florida. "M...
Thursday, May 1, 2008

Masechet Cyperspace #4: Can We Erase God's Name on a Computer Screen?

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On Wednesday, the New York Times ran an interesting article about a unique Holocaust Torah: From Auschwitz, a Torah as Strong as Its Spirit ...
Monday, April 28, 2008

High Holidays 2006 / 5767 Sermons

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New Year 2006 / 5767 Sermons Day 1 Day 2 Kol Nidre Yom Kippur (for audio, see http://www.tbe.org/site/pages/library.htm ) Rosh Hashanah Da...
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