HeyJaredThe Urban Rabbi
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To Be a Jew in the World (opens the original)
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What’s powerful about P!nk’s words is that she doesn’t take the bait, she doesn’t descend into jingoism, knee-jerk protectionism, or whataboutism. She doesn’t justify anyone’s bad behavior. The power of the Jewish story, she understands, is that we are chosen to inhabit not just our Jewishness but our humanity in full. Our heroes grow, learn, do teshuvah, do better. Compassion, empathy, insistence on just outcomes, these qualities make us Jews. That’s not a story we should whisper in our childre
25 Years After 9/11 (opens the original)
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In Memoriam: An Invitation to Find Balance Once More Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe
Less That you Can. All That you Should (opens the original)
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It's time to treat diversity and difference as assets again Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe
Amalek and Terror (opens the original)
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Last weekend, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl of New York’s Central Synagogue said the following in an interview: “We know what kind of city we want to live in. One in which people of all faiths, classes and colors feel belonging. For Jewish New Yorkers, it has to include both safety and security on a physical level, and knowing we will not be demonized, marginalized or harassed for supporting a Jewish homeland....” Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe
Love: The Antidote to Tisha B’Av (opens the original)
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"There are forces that want to bathe our joy in inescapable grief, as we learned on Tisha B’Av. But there are other forces, better forces, Godly forces, that can be an antidote to the disease of hate." Get full access to The Urban Rabbi at www.theurbanrabbi.org/subscribe
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