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The heroes of the beginning of Exodus are not Moses or Miriam or anyone in their family. The heroes are

As anyone who has been to a recent Buffalo Bill’s game knows, sometimes surviving is enough.  In three consecutive weeks,

  When I was in Israel two years ago, I had a chance to visit my cousins in Be’er Sheva.

  To dream in America is to truly live. Not so much for our biblical ancestors. For them dreams were

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Vj_JZc2Kek Last week, at the Reconstructing Judaism conference in Philadelphia, I attended a course on gender language taught by professor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AOp9ivywnPA Thomas Wolfe famously titled his posthumously published 1940 novel, “You Can’t Go Home Again.” The protagonist in the book

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQU2tiOUxu8 Sibling rivalry is as old as time.  Or at least as old as Torah.  From Cain and Abel, Isaac

Sometimes it is only in difficult times that you truly learn who your friends are.  In this week’s Torah portion,

https://youtu.be/qUb5KAtRwa8?t=9 If you don’t think one person can make a difference, think again. Nine years ago, a public school teacher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5-rndDF76I When two Jews get together who have never met before, they generally compare notes.  They go through a process