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Don’t Be Amalek…Be a Jew

Amalek is Us?  Only if we let it! Rabbi Cy Stanway The holiday of Purim is beckoned with a Torah ...
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How I Write Divrei Torah

The spoken word can be immensely powerful. Our tradition rests on this awareness. Torah was spoken at Sinai and we ...
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Behold, This One is Good

I would like you to consider the following two real people, one who is familiar to you and one who ...
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Bequeathing Values

When Carl Sagan died a couple of years ago, there were lots of stories about him that began to circulate. ...
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The Leprous Words

When we were youngsters, most of us probably had a pet of some kind. And sooner or later it died. ...
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Getting All Dressed Up For Work

The Associated Press ran a story some time ago of Andre-Francois Raffray. More than thirty years ago at the age ...
A boy and a man celebrating a Jewish ceremony with Torah scrolls.

So That I May Dwell Among You

How many of you here this evening remember your first calculator? When you got it, didn’t you think that it ...
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Challenges of the Shma

In the movie Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, there is a scene where Robin comes to a youth taking aim at ...
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The Spirit of Amalek Within and Without

There is a little story about an American Indian who had a phenomenal memory. He had the amazing ability to ...
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Get to the Meaning, Not the Image

Imagine, if you will, what life would be like without images. We have images for everything. We imagine what our ...