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The God of My Understanding
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I grew up in a religiously, culturally and gastronomically Jewish home in Willingboro, NJ which is a suburb of Philadelphia. Our family went to synagogue weekly, practiced holiday rituals, lit the candles on Friday night, but kept kosher only when my paternal grandmother lived with us. I attended Hebrew school until I was 16.…
Reb Zalman
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
I heard the news today about the passing of an icon in the Jewish community, whose reach exceeded ‘the tribe’ into which he was born. An emissary of peace, an interfaith advocate and a fellow ‘Holy Rascal’, Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi took his last breath on this side of the veil and his next on the other. …
Freedom vs. Safety
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
Yesterday, I was interviewed on the How To Be A Holy Rascal radio show hosted by my friend Rabbi Rami Shapiro on Unity.FM Radio. Rami and I have known each others since the early 1990’s. I sense that the Cosmic Jokester brought us together. I was in a bookstore in South Florida perusing the spirituality…
Holy Rascal
By
Edie Weinstein, MSW, LSW
A few months ago, I was invited to be part of a growing movement, as it were. It meant claiming a part of my identity that I had kept under wraps for far too long and honoring aspects of myself that felt grandiose, over the top…too much. Holy Rascal is what it is named and by…
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