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For many of us the summer is a time of slowing down, enjoying the great outdoors, kicking back and relaxing. School is out and the rigors of the academic year give way to informal environments such as camp, vacation, or even the backyard BBQ. Jewish campers and youth groupers have long been enamored of the outdoor sanctuary, finding the feeling
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A few years ago, while serving as student Cantor at Congregation Beit Simchat Torah in NYC, a synagogue for all gender identities and sexual orientations, the trajectory of my professional life was changed in an instant. It was early in my internship when a kind, older gentleman approached me after services. With tears in his eyes, this man
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I used to love to read the book “A Precious Present” by Spencer Johnson to my campers when I was a camp counselor. The book teaches, that of all the things a person would want – to resolve the past, or hope for the future – the best gift we have is the gift of now – the gift of the Present. I always think of this story when Shavuot draws near.
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About the time we started preparing for High Holy Days in Jerusalem during my first year of cantorial school, my son Brian started boot camp for the United States Marines. Back in the States, there aren’t too many Jewish mothers whose sons are Marines (though there was at least one cantor friend of mine in the same boat). I did feel a bit of a
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One of the crucial statements in the Pesach Haggadah urges: B’chol dor vador chayav adam lir’ot et atzmo k’ilu hu yatza mi-mitzrayim. In every generation one is obligated to see oneself as one who personally went out from Egypt. No doubt
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