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There are times when I believe that we make religion and Judaism more complicated that they need to be.

Our tradition is limned with countless interpretations and commentaries which have produced thousands of rules and regulations fully known to a chosen few, to the point that so many...Read more...

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See, ("Re'eh"), is the word which begins this week's Torah portion.

Indeed, there was much for Americans and the world to see this past weekend.

Torch carrying Nazis storming the streets of...Read more...

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One of the strangest conversations of my rabbinate took place recently as services ended one Shabbat morning.

A visitor to our congregation approached me to offer his objections to the Prayer for our Country which we recite each Sabbath...Read more...

TEL AVIV --  A few days after I arrived in Israel, a Tel Aviv resident asked if I knew what the national bird of Israel was.

"It's the crane," he chirped, before giving me a chance to respond.

Cranes are everywhere in Israel, extending skyward above new construction work, crowning buildings under renovation. You can see them around new apartments, office towers, cultural centers.Read more...

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I have a friend, a distinguished lawyer, who once shared with me his internal struggle between the nature of...Read more...