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What Can We Learn From the Juxtaposition of Joy and Sorrow?

Rabbi Joel Mosbacher

Several times during the year, the Jewish calendar places joyous and challenging holidays near each other. What lessons we take from this juxtaposition?

Galilee Diary: Uncertainty

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

by Marc Rosenstein
(Originally published in Galilee Diary and Ten Minutes of Torah)

Galilee Diary: On the Waterfront

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

He will take us back in love; He will cover up our iniquities, You will hurl all our sins into the depths of the sea. -Micah 7:19

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The Bitter and the Sweet: Observing Yom HaZikaron and Yom HaAtzmaut This Year

Rabbi Rick Jacobs

We at the URJ are working with you, our congregations, to instill a love of Israel, make it central to the identity of Reform Jews, and advance efforts toward ensuring that it is a nation of equality, tolerance, pluralism, and justice.

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America Needs a Just and Equitable Immigration Policy: If Not Now, When?

Rabbi Lee Bycel

It is difficult to imagine anyone not moved by the scenes of children seeking asylum at our southern border.

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On Yom HaShoah, Hear the Message of the Saved Remnant

Aron Hirt-Manheimer

My mother’s answer to hate is love. When I asked her what she wishes for herself and for the world, she said, “For myself good health, so I can be good to others. For the world, peace not war. No bad person wins in the end. What did Hitler achieve?”

Kol Nidre: All Vows and One Haunting Melody

Cantor Lauren Phillips

Perhaps the most familiar melody we hear each High Holiday season is Kol Nidre – the introductory prayer recited before sundown on the eve of Yom Kippur.