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May 04, 2021
Looking Evil In the Face, Boldly and Beautifully
“If there is only one book you are going to read….” is not something I say often, and something I don’t think should ever be said about a topic as important and as complicated as the Holocaust. I will say though, that anyone who cares about the topic, or any questions of evil and how we respond to it, really must read Faris Cassell’s new, and already award-winning book, The Unanswered Letter. I recently had the opportunity to talk with Faris about her work, which had already been awarded first place in......
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January 22, 2021
Night Words, A Midrash For The Holocaust
The Meaning of this Day, January 27, 2021 In 2005, the United Nations General Assembly designated January 27–the anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz-Birkenau–as International Holocaust Remembrance Day. On this annual day of commemoration, the UN urges the world community to honor the six million Jewish victims of the Holocaust and millions of other victims of Nazism. The theme guiding Holocaust remembrance in 2021 is Facing the Aftermath: Recovery and Reconstitution After The Holocaust. The never-ending process of recovery and reconstitution of individuals, communities, and systems of justice includes: accurately recording the......
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September 11, 2020
Reflections On The Nineteenth Anniversary Of September 11th
The horror of September 11 can not be reduced to a statistic or an emotion....
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Today is a doubly sad day. Today I mourn as a Jew, and today, I mourn as an American. Today is Tisha b’Av, the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, a day that marks the destruction of both the first and second Temples in Jerusalem. Today is the day on which the Jewish people recall thousands of years of hurt and harm, homelessness and harshness, sometimes of unimaginable measure. Tisha b’Av marks the moments when we have failed to believe — in ourselves and/or in God — when we have......
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The Pilgrims were much more multi-dimensional and paradoxical than the classic tales would have us believe....
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Isidore of Seville was isolated in his time as one of the few people who cared about collecting and preserving knowledge....
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Through his weekly rag, Der Sturmer, Streicher helped Hitler spread anti-semitic propaganda to the masses in Germany....
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July 06, 2018
The American Ideal Is That The Act Of Governing Should Feel Consensual
The Revolutionary War was fought for an America in which citizens feel as though their relationship with the government is consensual....
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Reflections on the complicated character of Pontius Pilate, who gave the order for Jesus' crucifixion....
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