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Can I Pray in the Name of Jesus?

A chaplain's experience with a Christian patient.

Make a Window in the Word

My favorite Hasidic teaching is a teaching about prayer couched in a homily on Noah’s Ark. God tells Noah to make ...

The Season of Our Newborn Joy

At the end of the Day of Atonement we petition: “Breathe into me of Your spirit, and I will live ...

How the IDF Makes Jelly Doughnuts

I don’t know why I’m so into Hanukkah food demonstration videos today. Actually, maybe I do. Probably because I’m really ...

Grilled Cheese Latkes

A crispy latke fried in oil then sandwiched together with cheese.

Studying With my Father, 18 Years Dead

Will we ever be free of enumerating what we have, what we need, what will be enough, what will ensure our security, who will inherit, how much we can afford to give, who’s most needy or most worthy - all with a sense that there’s not enough to go around?

Traumatized, Isaac Goes to Visit Hagar

Having, in many ways, healed past victimhood, North American Jews live in relative comfort, able to offer aid to less ...

Summer Vacation – Gateway to Teshuvah

I offer my present lightness of being as Torah, the Torah of embracing our fullest selves, reverent and irreverent impulses equally inspired by the divine.

Are We Clean Enough?

This week’s Torah portion, Tazriah, includes the stipulation that, following the birth of a child, a mother must separate herself ...

There’s No Such Thing as Closure

There is a relationship in my life that has gnawed at my heartstrings for more than twenty years, and each ...

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