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The Angel Belafonte: Holiness in All Its Forms
A friend* brought to my attention a movie from 1970 called The Angel Levine in which a Jewish man played by Zero Mostel loses hope in his life until an…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Remembering the Day, Facing the Legacy
Yom Hashoah on which we remember the monstrous destruction wreaked upon the Jewish people by the Nazis and their allies during the Holocaust always…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Sacred Occasions and Everything In Between
The confluence of Passover, Easter, and Ramadan this year is remarkable not only for three Abrahamic religions finding a common moment of celebration…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Begging the question of Passover
Chances are that if you have come across the phrase "begging the question" before that it was not used according to its most proper meaning. This in…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Judaism As We Know It
A particular animal, unblemished and meeting exact standards, given to a priest to sacrifice in a prescribed way on the altar. That is not Judaism as we…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
A Purim Lament
While a famous Rabbinic teaching connects the joyous, raucous holiday of Purim to Yom Kippur, a time of physical restraint and spiritual sincerity, no…
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
Measures and Half-Measures:
Torah in Memory of Matthew Eisenfeld and Sara Duker on their Twenty-Seventh Yahrtzeit
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Rabbi Michael Bernstein
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