Tag archive for ‘Emanuel Congregation’
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Once Around the Sanctuary, Not So Fast
People often remark that converts tend to have a deeper knowledge of Judaism than do Jews by birth. But as with all things, practice makes perfect.
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Tikkun Olam in a Targeted Synagogue
My synagogue was one of the Yemeni mail-bomb terror targets. It is impossible to write a sentence like that without feeling the worst of humanity well up inside your being. But sometimes it’s when you feel the most hateful of urges that healing the world has the best chance to begin.
