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Sunday, April 12, 2026

The Diaspora Challenge that I Called TMore than Twenty Years Ago - My Article in Jewish Action 2004

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  This Pesach, I arrived at shul to find a new edition of YU Torah-To-Go - always a fun read. Except this issue focuses on the critical com...
Tuesday, March 17, 2026

The Line in Shemoneh Esreh that Changed, and What it Tells us about Ancient - and Modern Jewish Communities in Israel and the Diaspora. Part 1.

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Religious Jews around the world recite the following two blessings during the Amidah (otherwise known as Shemoneh Esreh) three times a day, ...
Monday, March 2, 2026

The Conservative Revolutionary - A Window in the Psak of Rav Moshe Feinstein zt"l

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This past Shabbat in Mekor Rishon, Rav Shabtai Rappaport, who is married to the granddaughter of Rav Moshe Feinstein, published a long retro...
Friday, February 14, 2025

Mitzvot and Stories: A Thought on Parshat Yitro

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I just started the M² The Institute for Experiential Jewish Education fellowship on Pedagogies of Peoplehood , and I will be spending the n...
Tuesday, April 9, 2024

Interesting Elements of Masechet Nedarim

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Readers of this blog will know that I've been focusing my efforts on Kitah , my work at Herzog Global , as well as on the Mishnah Yomit ...
Thursday, January 28, 2021

Preparing for the Light at the End of the Tunnel - Video Dvar Torah for Parshat Beshalach 5781

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 How do we have hope in such a challenging time? We must follow the example of the righteous women of Israel who demonstrated their faith in...
Tuesday, May 12, 2020

Rabbi Schachter, the Mishnah and COVID-19

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Message in the Mishnah for May 12 2020 (Mishnah Yomit Temurah 5:1-2) The COVID-19 pandemic which crippled Jewish communities around the ...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

The Pace of Tefillah: In Defense of the Daily Minyan - the People Who Show Up Every Day

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Rabbi Barry Kornblau recently shared this Facebook post , which garnered a great deal of attention about the breakneck speed of the morning ...
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Thursday, January 10, 2019

Tech in the Shomer Shabbat Home

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A while back, Google introduced the Google Home Hub, a kind of alarm clock-tablet-speaker that people can place around the home. One of t...
Wednesday, July 25, 2018

"Meet Your Meat" and the Ethics of Animal Consumption

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Watching an old episode of Parks and Recreation recently, I came across this short vignette which encapsulates the ethical challenges inher...
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