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Torah portion: The importance of humility
Parashat Eikev (Deuteronomy 7:12-11:25)
Torah portion: Beauty in the breakdown
Parashat Acharei Mot is so fraught that one can hardly think about its content without considering what parts of it we dodge or downright omit.
Torah portion: Preserve freedom by remembering slavery
Parashat B’shalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16)
Moving and shaking: FIDF, AJC and more
More than 15 Los Angeles residents returned home on Nov. 21 after participating in a weeklong, sold-out national leadership mission to Israel organized by the Friends of the Israel Defense Forces (FIDF).
Moving and shaking
Rabbi David Ellenson, immediate past president of Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), and Sue Neuman Hochberg, chair of the HUC-JIR Western Region Board of Overseers, were honored with a musical tribute at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel on Feb. 9.
Norway and multiculturalism
In a recent New York Times article, Scott Shane describes how the violence in Norway emerged from a distinct rhetorical and ideological context, and perhaps the left appropriately will admonish the right for the vitriol of its tirades against multiculturalism.