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It’s Labor Day once again. Americans have been celebrating this holiday since 1882. On Labor Day, we salute ourselves, the workers, who have toiled and sweated and given so much of ourselves to create this magnificent nation. Listen to The HanwooriWorkers Choir of South Korea as they sing their rendition of the beautiful Israeli folk song, "
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Whenever Jews need to sanctify time, we use three things: wine, text, and song. Even if we always partake of the same dusty bottle of boiled-down Manischewitz every Friday night, it is the combination of familiar voices, familiar words, and Louis Lewandowski’s familiar melody that brings Shabbat in to us. On one particular Friday night about
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I will never forget the moment when, age 16, one of the leaders of my Israel tour asked a friend and I to sing the song ‘Shir LaShalom’ at the grave of Yitzchak Rabin, while we were visiting Har Herzl - Israel’s national cemetery. The moment is etched in my memory for several reasons: Firstly, because we each knew the story 1 of how important
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Passover is one of the most widely celebrated Jewish holidays on the calendar. It is a time of reenactment, of storytelling, of asking some obvious questions, and hopefully of some more difficult ones as well. But Passover is something else as well; it is a reminder of our obligation to see the world around us, identify what is unjust and
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Our congregations are often chock full of fun and silly melodies during Purim time. Our Purim shpiels celebrate the holiday through witty parody and clever adaptation of the traditional Purim story. Yet, no matter how we celebrate, the triumphant story is always present. It has a great moral that speaks the need to declare and stand up for who
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