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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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Thursday, May 23, 2013

Shabbat-O-Gram for May 18, 2013

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Shabbat-O-Gram   Our 7th Graders just before their "Aliyah" service on Tuesday evening Shabbat Shalom With Shavuot ...
Monday, May 13, 2013

Why Do Jews Stay Up All Night and Study on Shavuot?

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WHY DO MANY JEWS STAY UP ALL NIGHT STUDYING TORAH ON SHAVUOT? http://www.schechter.edu/Responsa.aspx Volume 7, Issue No. 7, May 2013 ...
Sunday, May 12, 2013

Why Do We Eat Dairy on Shavuot?

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Why is it customary to eat dairy products on Shavuot? Let me count the ways... WHY DO WE EAT DAIRY ON SHAVUOT? Many reasons are off...
Friday, May 10, 2013

Shabbat-O-Gram for May 10: Moms, Movements, Moons, Mountains and Matriculation

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Shabbat-O-Gram Mazal tov to our Sisterhood as tomorrow is our long-awaited, snow-delayed annual Sisterhood Shabbat.  A special m...

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Zachary Feinstein on Emor

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My portion of Emor talks a lot about leadership qualities – especially those that were held by the priests – the Cohanim.    The list here...
Thursday, May 9, 2013

TBE Bar/Bat Mitzvah Commentary: Lewis Baer on Behar - Behukotai

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Shabbat Shalom!             Today we read two portions of the Torah, which bring to an end the book of Leviticus.  The first one, Beha...
Saturday, May 4, 2013

Being a Mensch / The State of the Rabbininate

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Being a Mensch, Becoming Human, Staying Alive Last night about 25 men gathered for our inaugural men's discussion session.  The co...

Shabbat-O-Gram for May 3

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First, some odds and ends: See  Early Childhood Coordinator Ronnie Brockman's blog  on how counting the Omer - and counting in gen...
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