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October 10, 2008
Rabbis on anti-gay marriage Prop 8: Yes, no, maybe
Same-sex marriage is likely to remain a hot-button issue in the presidential race, with Prop. 8 backers looking to Sen. John McCain for ideological support, and opponents to Sen. Barack Obama.
Restoring Moses
Parshat Ha\’azinu (Deuteronomy 32:1-32:52) It isn\’t nice to say, but if I were hanging out in the desert with my friends — all excited about moving in to a land of milk, honey and great falafel — and an old man with a stutter insisted on \”speaking into our ears\” a weird doom and gloom poem, my likely remark would be: \”That dude\’s got issues.\”
Milken JCC hires new director; Heschel West receives US.gov award
The U.S. Department of Education has given Heschel West Day School the National Blue Ribbon Award, a prestigious prize given to the \”top 10 percent of schools nationally, based upon academic achievement.\”
Al Franken leads in Senate race, poll finds
Al Franken has taken the lead over incumbent Norm Coleman in the Minnesota Senate race, according to a new poll.
True confessions of an online dating addict #10: Dating more than one person at a time
Sermon of the Year
Film directors call this end-of-day light the \”golden light.\” It\’s not the bright, naked light of the mid-day, nor the dramatic darkness of the night. It\’s the light that bridges those two worlds. Spiritually, it\’s the time when the past and the future caress each other — the day is still fresh in our mind, but we can feel the breath of the approaching night.
Why I support Barack Obama
I was with Obama in Israel and in Europe, and I saw how he focused on the urgency of the Iranian threat. I saw how he used his discussions in Israel to remind the European leaders that Israelis are justified in seeing Iran with nuclear weapons as an existential threat — and that for Israel\’s sake and our own we must put far more pressure on Iran if we are to stop it from going nuclear.
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