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Twin Towers of Smoke

Within the Bible, we are presented with twin towers--one of destruction and violence, the other of justice.

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism, tower, smoke, Television, sweet scent, Twin Towers, hafradat hayisodot, Midrash, smoke rising, word changes, World

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A Handy Blessing

A meditation on the priestly blessing and God's alienation from humanity

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism, God, Midrash, Torah Commentaries, Priest, Abraham Joshua, priestly blessing, human, inner constraintThe insights, challenges God

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Dershowitz's Drash

The important (and self-important) lawyer turns his hand to Genesis

Related Topics: Entertainment, Justice, Dershowitz, Alan Dershowitz, Interpretation, literal reading, modern feminism work, Book, learning justice, question, history lesson

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True Lies

I took liberties with the facts in my own memoir and in the life of the patriarch Abraham. Am I a fibber like James Frey?

Related Topics: News

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Under the Joy, Dark Notes

Avivah Zornberg's latest gives us a layered reading of Exodus.

Related Topics: Entertainment, Books, zornberg, Exodus, Story, magisterial narrative, Paralysis, child psychologist, interpreters gloss, talking cure, analysis, womens stories

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Katrina Wasn't God's Disaster

This rabbi believes Hurricane Katrina's destruction was a human error and is doing his part to respond in kind.

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism, Alana B. Elias Kornfeld

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Passover and the Global
Climate Crisis

Is the Environmental Protection Agency a modern-day pharaoh? Sweep eco-chameitz from your life with these simple steps.

Related Topics: Faiths, Judaism

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The Courage to Be Free

Let's make the Passover seder a time to truly listen to the stories of our Jewish journeys across the generations.

Related Topics: Faiths, generation, Jewish, table shares, peoples ability, Freedom, peoples experience, Seder, meal ends, Courage, Egypt

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He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in...

-Anonymous

He who is merciful when he should be cruel will in the end be cruel when he should be merciful.

Related Topics: Judaism, Jewish Quote

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