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(May 16, 2012) Psalm 1 is trying to provide practical advice about how to be “good” even when it feels like evil is closing in you. Stay on the right path and resist the dark side.
(May 15, 2012) This week’s twin Torah portions of Behar and Behukotai – which together conclude the book of Leviticus – implicitly challenge the impulse to frame social activism over and against normative legal policies.
(May 15, 2012) Earlier today in St. Paul’s Cathedral, the Dalai Lama accepted the $1.7 million Templeton Prize, awarded for promoting scientific research and religious harmony.
(May 10, 2012) Popular Jewish author Joshua Stanton reflects on the new "Jewish American Heritage Month"
(May 9, 2012) But if you don’t stumble over the line “God knows no partiality,” you’re not paying attention to the jagged edge where the church and the world meet. The very phrase is audacious. NO partiality? Aren’t young people are fleeing...
(May 7, 2012) There are also the single stories we in the American public who care about the Middle East impose on one another from all sides: extremist, anti-Semite, racist, naïve, bigoted, loony.
(May 5, 2012) Some believe it to be the day he attained enlightenment, and the date of his physical death years later.
(May 2, 2012) Yesterday, President Obama declared May 2012 "Jewish American Heritage Month".
(May 1, 2012) Protestors occupied the streets of Philadelphia. Morning commuters were diverted in Los Angeles. And in New York where things got off to a damp start, demonstrators gathered in front of large banks and marched through the city. What...
