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A Name for Us / A Name for You
I presented this dvar at our Shabbaton yesterday: Parshat Noach contains one of my favorite Biblical stories: that of the Tower of Babel. Together with you, I’d like to tease a few details out of the...
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Go For Yourself
From my blog: This past week’s Torah portion, Lech Lecha, made me think of my own decision to take a year to study in Israel. The first verse reads as follows: וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה אֶל-אַבְרָם, לֶךְ-לְךָ...
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The Country where Christmas Wasn’t
From my blog: On Tuesday night, I went to Bethlehem. Christmas in America Growing up in America, all I saw of Christmas were signs reading “Buy One get One FREE” and “Sale: 70% mark down! 5-7am only!!”...
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More Than Four Faces of Israel | Part 2
From my blog: A few weeks ago, an actress came to Pardes to do a kind of skit, stereotyping Four Faces of Israel, or four different people that one will inevitably encounter in Israel. She portrayed...
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[Alumni Guest Post] “Be Strong”
Daniel Shibley's (Year '11, Fellows '12, Kollel '14) post: Day in and day out in the army, somebody somewhere can be overheard delivering these two words. Often they follow a complaint about any number...
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[Alumni Guest Post] Frostbite and Recovery by Evan Wolkenstein
Evan Wolkenstein (Year '99, Fellows '00, PEP '00-'02) reflects upon the 2014 Pardes 'Spring Forward' Retreat for Judaics Teachers (from his blog) I had no business being outside without my arms...
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Reading the Megillah for Crimea
The Talmud teaches, “Kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh” (Shavuot 39a) — all Israel is responsible for one another. I have rarely felt this more profoundly than on March 16, Shushan Purim, when I joined...
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Blowtorch to my Soul
Here are some reflections that I shared at the final community lunch of the year: “libun” is the process of making something kosher by heating it to a high temperature. “libun” means “to whiten” and...
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[PCJE Graduation] Who is Brave, not Crazy?
My PCJE graduation speech: Good evening. It is an honor to stand before you today as I graduate from the Pardes Educators Program. Over the past two years I have been privileged to study in this very...
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Last night I sat with hundreds of others for the Memorial Ceremony, organized by the young leaders of the Youth group EZRA. This year my 16 year old son, a group leader-Madrich- for 3rd grade boys-sat...
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