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I just recently returned from a vacation on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Maui. My husband thought that the break might do us both good. I had just finished covering for my rabbinic partner’s six month sabbatical, Mitch was on the mend from treatment for prostate cancer, and we both were still reeling over the tragic loss of a young family
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Rabbi Rick Jacobs writes, “A staggering 80% of our b’nei mitzvah drop out before confirmation. Stemming this exodus is the impetus for a Movement-wide transformation of how we interact with our youth. That is why Rabbi Yoffie initiated, and I have endorsed as one of my top priorities, the Campaign for Youth Engagement—a long-term effort to
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Recently, we celebrated Shavuot, the third of our “Three Festivals.” For some, Shavuot is the lesser-known stepchild of the festivals. We all know and celebrate Passover, season of our freedom. And even if all of us don’t build a sukkah of our own, many are well acquainted with the nature and harvest imagery of Sukkot: the lulav and etrog, the
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One of my all time favorite articles from the New York Times is a story about déjà vu and other para-psychological phenomena You know déjà vu-the feeling that you have experienced something before even when you haven’t. The premise of the article was the scientific justification for this very non-scientific experience. Scientists in the article
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Our joyous and wonderful holiday of Purim is upon us! We are told to eat, drink (especially drink) and be merry! There is a Talmudic statement that says “It is the obligation of each person to be so drunk (during Purim) as not to be able to tell the difference between 'Blessed be Mordechai' and 'Cursed be Haman.'” I remember giving a lecture
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