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DEUTERONOMY: A BOOK FOR TROUBLED TIME (2): A COVENANT OF KINDNESS ILLUSTRATION:...

DEUTERONOMY: A BOOK FOR TROUBLED TIME (1): WHO WROTE THE BOOK OF LOVE? (THE FULL MOON, BOTH A...

SATISFYING CONFIRMATION FROM A SURPRISING CORNER ILLUSTRATION: Julian Stodd's Learning Blog...

Our Temple Israel Travel group members remember warmly the Shabbat when we worshiped at the BZBI...

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WHAT’S YOUR RATIONALE FOR SHABBAT REST? ILLUSTRATION: Sabbathday Lake, New Gloucester, Cumberland,...

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WHAT MAKES A NATION GREAT? THE JEWISH ANSWER ILLUSTRATION: Workers prepare to move the original...

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WHAT MAKES A NATION GREAT? (1) The One and the Many For several years, our nation has been gripped in...

WHEN A NATION LOSES ITS NAME: (2) WHAT MAKES A NATION GREAT?WHAT BRINGS A NATION DOWN FROM...

Navigating the Minefields of Nomenclature ILLUSTRATION: French-language map of the English Channel...

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TONY, KEEP YOUR DAY JOB! Baseball fans, starved since last October—a world ago—needed no excuse....

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AN INTERVIEW WITH THE FIRST MASKED LEADER This brouhaha over masks that is dividing our tribes...

THE HIDDEN SPIRITUALITY OF WEDNESDAYS ILLUSTRATION: I-stock by Getty Images....

WHO WILL STAND UP FOR ME AGAINST THE GODLESS? ILLUSTRATION: After the bomb blast, at the...

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ILLUSTRATION: My elusive friend, the great Yiddish poet, Velvele Fakespeare, has been known to...

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Shalom, dear congregants and friends. In the several years that I have been recommending readings, it...

The Continuing Adventures of the Broken Tablets: (2) Paradise Lost ILLUSTRATION: Egyptian idol:...

The Continuing Adventures of the Broken Tablets: (1) Where is the Lost Ark? ILLUSTRATION: replica...

WHEN GREAT MINDS DISAGREE ILLUSTRATION: Maria Szantho, “Rabbinic Scholars Debating the Law” c....

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The Message of 17 Tamuz… And the Underlying MessagePART TWO: THE VALUES BEHIND THE EXPLANATIONS...

The Message of 16 Tamuz… And the Underlying Message (A Two-Part Message): Part One: What to do,...

Ringo Starr isn’t Jewish, but that didn’t stop a group of Canadian separatists from issuing a...

TAKING RESPONSIBILITY FOR ONE’S SINS ILLUSTRATIONS: (L) George Washington Custis Lee reviewing the...

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Conservative/Masorti Rabbis Praise Supreme Court Decision to Strike Down Restrictive Louisiana...

If You are not Standing with Moses, you are Standing with Pharaoh Illustrations: (1) The March on...

Message of the Day (Rabbi Panitz Weekly News) 2020-06-30 03:00:00

IN THE FACE OF PERVASIVE ANTI-BLACK RACISM, WHAT SHOULD JEWS SAY? (1) Hear the Words of a Refugee...

REFUTING A CALUMNY ILLUSTRATION: The “Lloyd George” street sign in Jerusalem, named in honor of the...

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WALKING AWAY FROM AN EVIL ASSEMBLY Illustration: The Nuremberg Trial of Leading Nazi War Criminals The...

WHEN HERITAGE LOOKS IN THE MIRROR AND SEES HATE ILLUSTRATION: Demonstrators carry Confederate and Nazi...

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ON FATHER’S DAY: FATHERS, MODEL NON-TOXIC MASCULINITY! (Conclusion): Cultivating Fatherly...

ON FATHER’S DAY: FATHERS, MODEL NON-TOXIC MASCULINITY! (1): Biblical Advice for an Era of...

WHY 40 YEARS? (3): GENERATIONAL CHANGE TAKES A GENERATION Illustration: Nighttime, The Israelite...

WHY 40 YEARS? (2): BIBLE STORIES, RECONSIDERED We who love Judaism are sometimes too fearful to...

WHY 40 YEARS? (1): THE OTHER SIDE OF THE STORY One of my favorite Bible jokes is a product of the...

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[Note—If you are interested in hearing a message dealing with today’s news item, the dismantling...

DON’T SLANDER YOUR BLACK-JEWISH SISTER Illustration: Movie Still from The Ten Commandments, showing...

The Dangers Out There Illustration: Carrying the Ark of the Covenant through the Wilderness Tired of...