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There is an ancient Jewish legend about a wonder-working sage who hid with his son from their oppressors in a cave for twelve years. During that time,…
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A couple of weeks ago, on Holocaust Memorial Day, I was doing a project with my middle school students for our memorial assembly. One of them had finished…
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In December, the arborists came to our backyard to prune our locust tree, some of whose larger branches had died and were breaking off from the trunk. The…
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As an avid winter hiker, one of my favorite endeavors is walking across local bodies of frozen water. From the tiny frog ponds of Delmar’s Pine Hollow…
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Dear Mr. President:Warmest congratulations to you and to Vice President Harris upon this historic and long-awaited occasion of your inauguration. You and…
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While everyone was going crazy over Harry Potter in the nineties, I never really got on that fandom train. I half-heartedly read the first two books, both…
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Just because our ancient stories are myths doesn’t mean that they aren’t true.As a rabbi, I spend a lot of time reminding my students that you can take…
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As we hiked through the woods and preserves in our region this past summer, my wife developed a fondness for photographing the exposed roots of the many…
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“Dad, the Perseid meteorite shower is easy to see in the sky the next few nights. How about we drive out of Albany where it’s dark enough to…
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In addition to my full-time job as a congregational rabbi, I teach Jewish religious studies to middle school students twice a week at our community’s…