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The Golden Rule in one or another formulation is central to almost all of the world’s faith traditions.

I hope we can overcome the polarization and divisiveness that have come to characterize our political and social discourse and that we can learn to think and act for the common good.

There is reason to believe the New England colonists who observed the first Thanksgiving modeled their celebration on the fall harvest festival mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures.

Rabbi Barry Marks: Not by might and not by power Rabbi Barry Marks In 164 BCE, a ragtag coalition of Jewish nationalists and pietists succeeded in driving out the forces of the Syrian king Antiochus from the Jerusalem Temple, the focal point of Jewish religious identity in ancient times, and in rededicating the sanctuary to the worship of God. That ceremony of rededication is the origin of the festival of Chanukah (from the Hebrew word meaning “dedication” or “consecration”), an eight-d...