Category archive for ‘JUDAISM’ 
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How Does Rabbinic School Change You?
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?
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Crashing the Jewish Survival Idol
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?
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And Here’s What Happened Next
So a week ago I applied to rabbinic school. Here’s what I learned today.
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So I Officially Applied to Rabbinic School
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.
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‘Twas the Night Before Mailing My Rabbinic School Application
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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Long As God Can Grow It
Is that a mop on your head or are you just counting the Omer? Or how I ended up observing the Omer in spite of myself.
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Omer Is My Siddur? (Alone on a Shelf)
Using Judaism’s traditional seven-week period of mourning as inspiration to return to a ‘three-a-day the Jewish way’ prayer practice.
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Personal Pesach Posek
How the Sadducees, the Sanhedrin, and Sweet Brown led Ryan and me to a observe a seven-day Passover holiday.
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What Would Jesus Not Do?
It’s amazing how much we’re willing as a human race to insult and hurt each other–and ultimately, ourselves–often mortally so, just to prove that the things we believe are right.
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16 Miles, Paid in Twenties and Hundreds
Musing about Los Angeles distances recently, I was surprised to learn my mental yardstick had finally changed time zones.
