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Ki Tavo - Gainesville I sometimes wonder how many love songs have ever been written.  Hard to know.  So I ...

PARASHAT SHOFTIM - GAINESVILLE When scholars began looking at the book of Deuteronomy from a literary-critical point of view and ...

Parashat Re'eh - Gainesville In 1981, I was in my last year of college in Toronto and, out of the ...

PARSHAT EKEIV - GAINESVILLE One of the interesting ways of reading the Bible is trying to figure out the meanings ...

Parashat Vaetchanan - Gainesville Some years ago, a colleague of Stella’s did something totally human: she tripped at her front ...

Parashat Devarim - Gainesville Let’s go back to near the book of Numbers and play a little Columbo episode. Remember ...

Parashat Mattot-Maseh 2025Rabbi Cy Stanway - Shir Shalom - Gainesville Florida Mattot: Let them Eat Brioche is not a NegotiationJuly ...

Rabbi Cy StanwayShir Shalom - GainesvilleJuly 11, 2025 There is an old saying that what makes God laugh is seeing ...

No More Hiding... GAINESVILLE - JULY 4 2025 When I was at camp many years ago, one of the standard ...

Dvar for June 25 Korach The Torah portion this week is one of the most confusing in the entire Torah.  Its ...