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rabbi423
Dec 27, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/27/2023
Dear Friends: I regret that I was not able to join you on Sunday night for the comedy performance or help out with schlepping for the...
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rabbi423
Dec 22, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/22/2023
Dear Friends: A few months ago when the first publicity stills came out from “Maestro”, the new movie about Leonard Bernstein which stars...
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rabbi423
Dec 20, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/20/2023
Dear Friends: In recent months there has been a lot of controversy over whether “anti-Zionism” is always antisemitic. At some point I...
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rabbi423
Dec 15, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/15/2023
Dear Friends: I wanted to call your attention this morning to an article which recently appeared in the Wall Street Journal by Prof. Ron...
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rabbi423
Dec 13, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/13/2023
Dear Friends: I have been intrigued by the luncheon that Joseph threw for his brothers in this week’s Parasha for over thirty years. Some...
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rabbi423
Dec 8, 20234 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/8/2023
Dear Friends: Yesterday morning, the man who the New York Jewish Week described in 2013 as “everybody’s favorite rabbi” passed away...
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rabbi423
Dec 1, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 12/1/2023
Dear Friends: With the rise of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college campuses, the staff of the University of Maryland Hillel...
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rabbi423
Nov 29, 20233 min read
Rabbi's Update 11/29/2023
Dear Friends: With the rise of antisemitic and anti-Israel incidents on college campuses, the staff of the University of Maryland Hillel...
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rabbi423
Nov 17, 20234 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/17/2023
Dear Friends: Last night we continued our Adult Education study of some of the poetry of Yehuda Amichai, Israel’s greatest modern poet....
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rabbi423
Nov 15, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/15/2023
Dear Friends: Yesterday I joined an estimated 290,000 Jews and our allies at the “March for Israel” on the Mall. Below is one of the...
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rabbi423
Nov 10, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/8/2023
Dear Friends: Last night I began a new minicourse on the poetry of Yehuda Amichai (1924 - 2000). Amichai was considered the “national...
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rabbi423
Nov 8, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/8/2023
Dear Friends: This coming Tuesday, Nov. 14, there will be a massive rally in DC supporting Israel, opposing antisemitism, and calling for...
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rabbi423
Nov 3, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/3/2023
Dear Friends: You may not be aware that there are around half a million Jews in Latin America and many Latino Jews in the United States...
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rabbi423
Nov 1, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 11/1/2023
Dear Friends: If you follow the news from Israel closely via Israeli news media and not just US media, you will know that Hamas proposed...
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rabbi423
Oct 27, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/27/2023
A Note from the Rabbi Dear Friends: Yesterday afternoon, in preparation for our participation in Solidarity Shabbat, I arranged a tallit,...
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rabbi423
Oct 25, 20232 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/25/2023
Dear Friends: We had a fairly large attendance for Shabbat morning services this past weekend. I am not sure precisely why but I suspect...
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rabbi423
Oct 20, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/20/2023
Dear Friends: My apologies to those of you who were planning to participate in last night’s opportunity to discuss together our concerns,...
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rabbi423
Oct 13, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/13/2023
Dear Friends: Last night’s vigil of Jewish Unity & Solidarity with Israel brought many hundreds of Jews and others together at Har Shalom...
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rabbi423
Oct 11, 20234 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/11/2023
Dear Friends: We will be one of the co-sponsors for tomorrow night’s “Vigil of Jewish Solidarity and Support for Israel” at Har Shalom....
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rabbi423
Oct 6, 20233 min read
Rabbi’s Update 10/6/2023
Dear Friends: While I always encourage people who are able to do so, to attend our Shabbat and holiday services in person, there are...
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