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Hillel’s voice is back, and she sounds great! (Parashat B’Shalach/Shabbat Shira)

Rabbi Daniel Bouskila February 4, 2012

This week I write to you from Jerusalem, inspired by the headline story from this past Tuesday ‘s Ha’aretz. On the first morning of my trip, here is the headline I woke up to: “New Orthodox Rabbinical Group Puts Israeli Women at Its Head – Hopes to Counter Creeping Religious Extremism.” The name of this new organization? Beit Hillel – an appropriate name for an organization that seeks to represent the moderate voice in Judaism.

Unloading the emotional U-Haul: Parashat Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26)

Rabbi Lisa Edwards January 4, 2012

A funeral director once said, “In all the funerals I’ve attended, I have yet to see a hearse with a U-Haul trailer attached.” But while it’s true that “you can’t take it with you,”meaning material possessions, I’m not so sure about emotional possessions. How many of us have walked behind a casket where lay the body of a relative or friend with whom we were still talking? Or, wrenchingly, with whom we never had the conversation we meant to have?

Revisionist History: Parashat Devarim (Deuteronomy 1:1-3:22)

Jewish Journal August 2, 2011

My grandmother loved to tell family stories in which key details were changed. Sometimes she swapped out one time period or location for another. Sometimes key characters were replaced or motivations recast. More than slips of memory, these alterations were her way of putting the past into perspective, of teaching lessons and of casting a favorable light on the generations gone by. I lovingly called this trait “Nana’s revisionist history.”

Refining Our Souls: Parashat Shemini (Leviticus 9:1-11:47)

Rabbi Joshua Levine Grater March 23, 2011

The aphorism “you are what you eat” first appeared in French and then in German in the 1800s, and was then brought into English in the 1920s by nutritionist Victor Lindlahr, the inventor of the “catabolic diet.” Hippie foodies later adopted the phrase in the 1960s.

Familial Forgiveness

Rabbi Susan Laemmle January 4, 2001

The syllabus for my USC general education class includes both Shakespeare\’s \”The Tempest\” and chapters 37-50 of Genesis — the Joseph story or \”novella.\” These two narratives share themes that commend themselves: forgiveness and reconciliation. Both Prospero and Joseph were set upon by their own brothers and narrowly escaped death. Both protagonists contributed to their victim role — Prospero through neglecting governance and Joseph by insensitive boasting. In the end, though, both forgive those who abused them — enabling their family circle to be repaired and the next generation blessed. Just as Prospero realizes that \”the rarer action is in virtue than in vengeance,\” so too does the instinct for reconciliation surge through Joseph.

Torah Portion

Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky February 19, 1998

Deeply ingrained ideas die hard. This week\’s parasha,however, helps to ring the death knell for one such idea. Many of us have been trained to believe that the Torah\’s commandments can be broken down into two basic categories.

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