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Last week I picked up a book at the library called Our Iceberg is Melting by business writers John Kotter

  We Jews love to shake hands. At Congregation Shir Shalom, we shake hands before services, we shake hands after

  An argument had broken out between a Bar Mitzvah boy and his parents. He was insisting on coming to

  It is always amazing that the laws included in this weeks portion, Mishpatim, are still largely in place today.

  In honor of Shabbat Shira, a Shabbat dedicated to song and poetry, I’d like to offer a poem I

In 2009, I was invited by Georg and Wilma Iggers to participate in a Kristallnacht commemoration in Gottingen, Germany. Georg,

  The past is never as far away as we first imagine. At CSS, we have congregants ranging from over

“At some point every Jew must live in Florida. It’s in the Torah,” so says the Lenny Bruce character in

  On Sunday, I will be visiting St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral to answer this very question. Outside of “do Jews

  This week in our Torah portion, Toldot, we return to the saga of Jacob and Esau once again –