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Shir Shalom - Gainesville Temple Shir Shalom: Gainesville
Rabbi Cy StanwayWhen I became an American many years ago, someone told ...
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Gainesville, 2025 Even though I pretty in the dark about baseball, even I know the iconic picture of Babe Ruth ...
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Nitzavim - Gainesville I am not sure why, but this week’s portion is my all-time favorite. I have tried to ...
Our Second Covenant
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Ki Tavo - Gainesville I sometimes wonder how many love songs have ever been written. Hard to know. So I ...
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PARASHAT SHOFTIM - GAINESVILLE When scholars began looking at the book of Deuteronomy from a literary-critical point of view and ...
Not Bound by Victimhood
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Parashat Re'eh - Gainesville In 1981, I was in my last year of college in Toronto and, out of the ...
MORAL BEAUTY
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PARSHAT EKEIV - GAINESVILLE One of the interesting ways of reading the Bible is trying to figure out the meanings ...
Lifne Mshurat HaDin – Torah is So Much More
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Parashat Vaetchanan - Gainesville Some years ago, a colleague of Stella’s did something totally human: she tripped at her front ...
Varuka Salt Will Never Be a Builder
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Parashat Devarim - Gainesville Let’s go back to near the book of Numbers and play a little Columbo episode. Remember ...