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48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #20
Hillel GoldbergSep 20, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #20, “Limited Entertainment” The human mind...
Sukkot: Living with uncertainty and joy
Amy LedermanSep 20, 2018
September in Tucson brings many things I love: cooler temperatures permitting long walks in Sabino Canyon, intermittent rains that drench my garden and the Jewish...
A body, a nation, pierced
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 20, 2018
There are turning points in life, and the murder of Ari Fuld, in the junctures of my life, is one of them. Tens of thousands of hearts around the world were breaking as...
Disinformation
Shana GoldbergSep 20, 2018
Once upon a time propaganda was not a bad word. It simply meant the dissemination of information in favor of a given cause. To us now it sounds Orwellian, but...
Domestic suspense
Shana GoldbergSep 13, 2018
There’s a new genre of thriller that has emerged in the past seven or so years, and it’s absolutely hooked me. I don’t know what the literary powers that be have...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #19
Hillel GoldbergSep 13, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #19, “Limited Conversation” If you want me...
Astonishing stories of return
Tehilla R. GoldbergSep 13, 2018
As we approach this Shabbat Shuva, the Sabbath that falls between the “inscribing” of Rosh Hashanah and the “sealing” of Yom Kippur, teshuva, loosely translated...
Jewish history’s port of call
Shana GoldbergSep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH 5779 SECTION A PAGE 2 Earlier this summer, I had the opportunity to visit the Western History Center at Case Western University in Cleveland. Sean Martin,...
Sermons: unity, not politics
Jonathan TobinSep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION D PAGE 19 What was American Jewry’s greatest failing in 5778? With Rosh Hashanah approaching beginning on Sept. 9, we should all...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #18
Hillel GoldbergSep 06, 2018
ROSH HASHANAH EDITION 5779 SECTION A PAGE 4 Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way...
