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GOOD MORNING! As a proud member of the “Boomer” generation I can certainly identify with the sentiment relating to the...

What these distinctions have in common in Abrahamic history is socio-political influence. Yahweh communed with chosen individuals in dreams and visions as their cultures built up power and influence, tried to hold onto it, and succumbed to their successors. The ‘seers’ of these messages acted as divine vessels to common people and kings, establishing laws, endorsing holy wars, maintaining social and political order, bearing omens of exile, persecution, worship of pagan deities like Baal, an...

Panel says faith community must lead slavery reparations LUIS ANDRES HENAO, Associated Press May 20, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail This Sunday, July 10, 2016 photo shows the First Baptist Church, left, the First Baptist Church of Christ, center, and Saint Josephs Catholic Church in Macon, Ga. About 170 years ago, the two Baptist churches were one congregation, albeit a church of masters and slaves. Then the fight over abolition and slavery started tearing badly at religious groups and moving the c...

With Israel under attack, do we care enough to help?

  The year 2021 marks 120 years for Golf Manor Synagogue (GMS).  To celebrate this auspicious anniversary Golf Manor Synagogue is embarking on a Sefer Torah Campaign.   Golf Manor Synagogue’s Sefer Torah Campaign is unlike any other.  Many congregations will commission the writing of a brand-new Torah to join their collection.  GMS is combining the writing of a new Torah with a restoration of their current Torahs.  This added dimension has practical benefits, ensuring tha...

Muzafer Sherif was a Turkish born psychologist who moved to the United States for graduate school and moved back to...

Velveteen Rabbi What replenishes you?  The term "self-care" has come to feel almost meaningless: its so ubiquitous, and so often misused. (A quick google search for the term yields returns like "How To Make Shopping A Healthy Self-Care Practice." Hello, capitalism.) But we all need to replenish our inner reserves. Thats true even when there  isnt a global pandemic.  Taking Shabbat off from working -- and from the to-do lists, the news headlines, workday consciousness -- replenishes me. My so...

Ascent to Jerusalem for the Three Festivals (Aliyah L’Regel) When the Temple stood, all males had to appear before the Lord for the three festivals (Exodus 23:14-17, 34:23-24, Deuteronomy 16:16). At what age did they have to come – at 13? 30? Also, did they have to come from the Diaspora? It seems unrealistic in those times that people who lived in Egypt or Babylonia would be able to make such a long trip three times every year. Lastly, was it realistic for so many people to converge on Jer...

Moses is describing a nation in flight from its enemies: Just the sound of a windblown leaf will put them to running, and they will run scared as if running from a sword! They will fall even when no one is chasing them! They will stumble over each other as they would before a sword, even though no one is chasing them! You will have no power to stand before your enemies. (Lev. 26:36-37) There is, on the face of it, nothing positive in this nightmare scenario. But the Sages said: “‘They will...

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