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February has many celebrations from Black History Month and Presidents’ Weekend.  It is also Jewish Disability Awareness, Acceptance & Inclusion Month (JDAAIM). How appropriate considering this week’s Torah portion, Yitro…

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This portion, Beshalach (Exodus 13:17-17:16), also known as Shabbat Shirah – the Sabbath of Song on account that the Song of the Sea is in this portion. In our daily prayers, each morning…

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This week’s Torah portion, Bo (Exodus 10:1-13:16) gives us the last three plagues of the Exodus story – locusts, darkness and the slaying of the first born. There is an…

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In this week’s Torah portion, Vaera (Exodus 6:2-9:35), we study the continuing story of Moses confronting Pharaoh and the bringing of the initial plagues – blood, frogs, and lice. After Aaron initiated…

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The book of Exodus (Shemot – Exodus 1:1-6:1) opens, famously, with a vivid depiction of the Israelites’ oppression at the hands of Pharaoh. By the end of the second chapter,…

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We arrive at the end of the Book of Genesis with the portion, Vayechi (Genesis 47:28-50:26), and spolier, everybody dies! We will go from here to 200 years into the future…

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How many of you do basic research with computers? It is so easy. All you do is type in the key word in Google and the auto-suggest feature completes the…

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We learn the lesson of overcoming adversity in this week’s portion, Miketz (Genesis 44:1-44:17). It shows Joseph starting as a slave in jail, innocent of the crime he was accused…

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This week’s Torah portion, Vayeshev (Genesis 37:1-40:23) begins the section known as the “Joseph Trilogy” – a section that gets our ancestors down to Egypt to begin the process of…

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Yisrael.  Israel.  The ones who struggle with God.  We are the people of Israel, the people who struggle with God.  If it were not for being the people of Israel,…

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