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		<title>Elul- A Time of Reflection and Preparation</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Aug 2010 19:20:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Monday night, August 9th, ushered in the month of Elul.  The heat of summer may still be upon us, but our spiritual clocks transmit a message that we are in for a change.  What can all of this mean?  Certainly, we realize that our evolutionary regimen of indicators explains so much about how we assign [...]


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		<title>Thinking About Summer</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Rabbi Joey
Summer means a lot of things for the Jews.  For one thing, it’s the traditional period during which Hebrew School teachers quit oppressing me and my friends.  The hallways darkened and the final chalk conjugations of early May yielded to half-hearted reminders that people ate dairy at Shavuos.  Mr. Gomborow and Mr. Shindler, [...]


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		<title>Advocacy Works: Haiti and Debt Cancellation</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 21:18:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you wonder if sending a message to your congressman matters, this story will demonstrate that it does matter.


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		<title>Jake Sullivan Rosh Hashanah Drash 5770</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:49:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Hey Woody, what can you tell me about Vayiera?” When I called, this is what he had to say:

(Woody Allen accent)

Life, for Abraham, is a series of crises. Like me, only worse. At seventy-some years old, he starts hearing a disembodied voice. The voice tells him it’s Gd. I never believe them when they say that. But Abraham does. Next, this voice tells him that he should be homeless--so he leaves home. Sounds crazy, right? But you got to take the guy in context. He goes through a lot of hardships--wanders around in the desert, no money, no health insurance, whole tribes are obliterated around him, and what does he do? Run away screaming? no! he sacrifices another ram or two--or a turtledove or whatever it was that they were sacrificing, and he trusts that things are going to be alright. 


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		<title>Ben Anderson-Nathe Yom Kipppur Drash 5770</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 21:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve just said that I struggle with the notion of a personified God who intercedes in human affairs. That image doesn’t work for me. But it is, unavoidably, central to this day. After all, how can I observe a day of atonement if I don’t know to what higher authority I am atoning? How can I ask forgiveness if I lack clear faith in a forgiver?


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