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During a recent browsing of YouTube, which I must admit I do on a regular basis, I came across a rather interesting video. The artists Y-Love and DeScribe made a music video of their song, Change. This video was posted in 2009 and I’m not sure how I missed it; perhaps it wouldn’t have spoken to me then as it did now. In any event, I listened. I
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“The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Ha’shkedia porachat, ve’shemesh paz zorachat…The Almond Tree is growing, and the golden sun is glowing…” 1
These words are excerpted from a very old children’s song for Tu B’shevat that every Israeli child knows, about the coming of spring, signified
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Growing up in Bakersfield California where there was only a handful of Jewish families, gave me my first taste of being an ambassador for Judaism. From a young age I loved to share Hebrew songs at my school assemblies or bring dreydles and latkes to school for Chanukah. It was my mission to break down the stereotypes about Jews, and I set about
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I’ve had the privilege to learn from Rabbi Rick Jacobs on several occasions, the most recent of which was in January 2013 in Chicago. I was there, along with a lay partner, and representatives from a handful of other congregations to form the first cohort of the URJ’s Communities of Practice. Together, we were assembled to figure out how to
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by Cantor Bradley Hyman
At some point in a person’s life, they lose touch with the most current trends in popular music. To be clear, you will become your parents. You might make an effort to listen to radio stations or watch videos, which attempt to bring you closer in understanding why things are more or less trending, but you will
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