Shavuot Insights
May 22, 2023
By Hershel Allerhand with thanks to Mary Ann Easley for typing and Liz Coffin for editing. This year, the holiday of Shavuot will be celebrated ...
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Passover Insights
March 30, 2023
By Hershel Allerhand Based on the writings of Rabbi Jonathan Sacks and Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik (the memory of the righteous is a blessing). Time: Freedom, Holiness ...
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Tu Be’Shvat
January 30, 2023
A thoughtful essay by our member, Hershel Allerhand, on the meaning of Tu Be’Shvat. Tu Be’Shvat, the ‘New Year for trees,’ falls this year on ...
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Yom Kippur Morning 5783: Anti Semitism on Campus
October 5, 2022
College used to be a place for academic inquiry, social and physical exploration, recreation and maturation, and sometimes political activism.
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Kol Nidre 5783: Spending Time
October 4, 2022
Imagine, if you will, that every morning when you woke up some anonymous donor placed $86,400 in a bank account for you to spend any ...
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Rosh HaShana morning 5783
September 26, 2022
The Dubner Maggid told the story of a king who had a large and glorious kingdom – but his most prized possession was a large ...
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Erev Rosh HaShana 5783
September 26, 2022
As never before, our United States democracy is being threatened. And it is being threatened by attacks on one of the most basic rights that ...
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The High Holy Days
September 20, 2022
By Herschel Allerhand Vaclav Havel (writer, dissident and statesman) was not Jewish, but his views regarding life mirror those of our Sages and make a ...
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Tisha B’av
August 2, 2022
By Herschel Allerhand Tisha B’Av, the saddest day of the Jewish year, will be observed on Sunday, August 7th, 2022. Actually, Tisha B’Av, the ninth ...
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A Chiddush (insight) for Chanukah
November 28, 2021
By Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor There are so many interesting challenges when considering the festival of Chanukah – the first is obvious: how do we ...
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D’var Torah on Haazinu
September 17, 2021
By Rabbi Gary M. Bretton-Granatoor Ed Paine, Ed Pease, Mike Scarpiello wrote a song in 1977, made famous by Peter, Paul and Mary in 1982 ...
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