“Why don’t Jews believe in Jesus?” (0)
6/18/13 •
Friday, I shared a bus shelter with a woman who looked at my yarmulke, walked over, and asked, ‘Let me just put it out there–why don’t Jews believe in Jesus?’ Here’s what I told her.
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To Be Sure (0)
6/17/13 •
Another Father’s Day come and gone. I guess after forty, I feel the regrets I thought I could live with for the rest of my life with greater intensity as the rest of my life starts to arrive.
My Rabbinic School Personal Statement (0)
6/12/13 •
A wise woman once said to me, ‘The inherent nature of Jewish tradition is to wrestle with the status quo, not to be the status quo.’ I have her to thank for inspiring the personal statement that I submitted with my successful rabbinic school application. Here is that statement.
Is It Idolatrous to Claim Certainty about Religious “Facts”? (0)
6/11/13 •
The more we try to lessen the struggle and claim certainty as Jews, the more we needlessly cut ourselves off from each other.
Why Two Disneyland Vets Didn’t Love Five Days in Walt Disney World (2)
5/30/13 •
On why Ryan and I came back from five days at Walt Disney World in Florida loving California’s Disneyland Resort even more than before.
How Does Rabbinic School Change You? (0)
5/17/13 •
How much of a rabbi is the person she or he was before beginning rabbinic school? How much of a rabbi fundamentally changes along the way? And maybe more importantly, stays the same?
Crashing the Jewish Survival Idol (1)
5/16/13 •
Jews of all ages together, doing Jewish together, for the sake of Jews of all ages. Could that be the real remedy for the ongoing crash of Jewish affiliation?
And Here’s What Happened Next (9)
5/13/13 •
So a week ago I applied to rabbinic school. Here’s what I learned today.
So I Officially Applied to Rabbinic School (4)
5/06/13 •
I’ve either just done the stupidest thing I’ve ever done in my life, or five and a half years from now I’ll be Rabbi Doyle.
‘Twas the Night Before Mailing My Rabbinic School Application (4)
5/02/13 •
No one has the right to tell you who you can and cannot love. So why do denominational rabbinic programs attempt to make that decision for their students?
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