When Shepherds Desert Their Flocks
Joel Kotkin
October 31, 2002
The conflict over Valley secession reflects the growing gap between rabbis and the actual reality their flocks experience.
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The Man of Lonesome Sorrow
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
July 4, 2002
He awoke from the nightmare with a scream, as he had every night for almost 40 years. His heart
raced, his body drenched in sweat, his mind filled with vivid images of fiery destruction. He saw rivulets of blood flowing through the streets of Jerusalem, the Holy Temple ground into ashes, the lifeless bodies of the priests scattered about the Temple Mount.
Stolen Souls
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
January 3, 2002
Surfing the TV one night, two powerful images caught my eye: On one station were Afghan women draped from head to toe in the traditional black burka. On another, Britney Spears, very much undraped, projected live across the world in a televised concert.
Find the Gems
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
September 27, 2001
There once was a man who could provide only potatoes for his family\’s subsistence. As the monotony and the poverty wore on, he prayed, and his prayers were answered. There fell into his hands a mysterious map to a magical Island of Diamonds.
What is Your Name?
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
January 25, 2001
God created the animals and brought them, one by one, before man to see what he would name them. Man examined the essence of each creature and assigned its name. So teaches Genesis.
‘Survivor’ Ethics
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
September 7, 2000
Sixteen strangers are left on a wilderness island to fend for themselves. They endure starvation, infestation, exposure to the elements. Each night they gather in council to vote one of their company off the island. Finally, only two are left. The castoffs are brought back as jury to choose the sole survivor. Conniving, manipulation, betrayal, deceit – that\’s entertainment! And 48 million Americans stopped to watch. A media sensation, \”Survivor\” made the covers of Newsweek and Time and the headlines in every newspaper.
19 Years Ago: Ask Yourself God’s Questions
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
September 9, 1999
When we arrive in heaven, the Talmudic sages wondered, what will God ask of us?
The Bonds that Unite Us
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
May 7, 1998
Enter a cathedral, and what do you feel? Thesoaring vaulted ceiling, the giant columns, the colossal statues ofsaints and martyrs, the luminous stained-glass images of scripturalheroes — the architecture articulates a spirituality of contrast. Weare small, insignificant, ephemeral creatures, no better than insectson the floor. We are impure, corrupt, stained with sin. Who are we toapproach God? God is magnificent, distant and fearsome in judgment.In the cathedral, it is only the figure of Christ that mediatesbetween my miserable condition as human being and God\’s majesty.Holiness, argued the scholar Rudolf Otto, lies in the contrastbetween our \”utter creatureliness\” and God\’s frightening \”tremendum.\”Holiness is the shiver of vulnerability in the face of theinfinite.
Torah Portion
Rabbi Ed Feinstein
January 22, 1998
The Nazis took my uncle Henry at the beginning ofthe war. He survived more than five years as a slave. Young andstrong, he was a carpenter, and they needed carpenters. At first,they moved him from camp to camp, including a stay at Pleshow, whereSchindler\’s people were kept. And, finally, Auschwitz. A slavelaborer, he built parts of the camp. When the Allies advanced, he wastaken on the infamous Death March from Poland into Germany. He wasliberated from Buchenwald by the U.S. Army in 1945.
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