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During this week of intense reflection on how we can turn things around – literally returning and making atonement and

  As Rosh Hashanah approaches this coming Sunday evening, and Monday, September 9-10, we are called to come together by

  “My ancestor was a wandering Aramean; he went down to Egypt and sojourned there, as a people few-in-number, but

  With these words Moses began the address in this week’s Torah reading. “See,” look, notice – there are opportunities

  “Listen Israel! Adonai is our God, Adonai is singular.” [Deuteronomy 6:4] This cry out of the wilderness, our “Sh’ma”,

  As Deuteronomy begins this week, we also commemorate the Ninth of Av, and so gather twice on Saturday, July

Even Moses didn’t understand the give and take of law and amendment until he saw it in action. Last week,

  “When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which

  This week in the Torah, the People of Israel received blessings from a foreign prophet, a donkey argued with

  Please join me in declaring our opposition to the separation of children from their families on our Southern Borders: