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Shabbat Zachor: The Sabbath of Remembrance
"Remember what Amalek did to you  on your journey...Do not forget!" 
(Deuteronomy 25:17,19)

The Jewish people have become very good at remembering.

We remember the Holocaust, and remain forever vigilant against signs of renewed anti-Semitism. During Passover, we remember our liberation from...Read more...

A rabbi told me this story when I was a child:

Two men, a pauper and a store owner, were walking toward each other one morning on the main street of a small town.

“Shalom Aleichem,” Shmuel, the pauper, said as he greeted Lazer.

“Aleichem Shalom,” the store owner, Lazer, responded.

“I'm wondering whether you could help me out with a few rubles so I can eat today,” the pauper...Read more...

Hardly a day has passed since I became a rabbi that someone has not introduced themselves by saying, “Rabbi, I'm really not that religious.” Frequently, as I meet with a family before eulogizing a mother or father, I hear, “He (or she) didn't believe in religion, still, they...Read more...

Jewish tradition holds that sometimes God winks at us, but we’re not ready to notice.

One of God’s greatest and persistent winks occurred for me between 1973 and 1974.

It was my first time away from home. While it is customary for American students to “go away to college,” in Canada, high school grads usually attend local universities — living at home, taking advantage of quality, but...Read more...

It was in my teenage years, while rustling through some boxes, that I discovered a gold covered loose-leaf binder that apparently had been buried in the basement for decades.

As I slowly opened the cover, and began reading the pages, it occurred to me that these were verses put to pen perhaps 20 years earlier by my father. Yes, my father.

I was dumbstruck. This was my dad, who — as a child — I...Read more...