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  • Katie Couric Goodbye

     Make no mistake about it, Katie’s leaving The Today Show is like a death. It’s like a death for all of us who spent the last fifteen years being informed, entertained, challenged and comforted by her. If Katie was there when we awoke each morning, somehow it felt as if the world was in its proper place.More

  • Munich The Movie

     During the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered by a Palestinian terrorist group known as Black September. In retaliation, the Israeli government recruits a group of Mossad agents to track down and execute those responsible for the attack. The movie recounts their brutal acts, but much more important, their Jewish ambivalence toward these acts.More

  • Lost and Found in Gaza

     The evacuation of Gaza is now completed, and the world has been watching closely. As a proud member of the Jewish People, I have nothing but admiration for the soldiers of the Israel Defense Forces, for the humane way they carried out this most difficult military assignment. Most soldiers train to fight against their enemies; the Israeli army was specially trained to evacuate their own families, friends, and sometimes even their own rabbis and teachers.More

  • Where Was God When I Got Cancer?

     Last week I received a phone call from someone whose father had died. The mom had died not too long ago, after several years of struggling with cancer. She used to be a “regular” shul attendee, but had stopped coming because she was angry at God.More

  • Who Was The Hero Of Hanukkah?

     Okay, all you scholars of Jewish history, the Rabbi has a question for you. What does it mean to be a hero? In the famous Hanukkah story, which we all know and love; the story of Judah Maccabbee and his family who fought and defeated the Syrian-Greeks and rededicated the Temple; the tiny little cruise of oil which was only supposed to last for one day but lasted for eight days; the piercing story of Hannah and her sons who died rather than profane the Holy Name of God; in that famous story, who was the hero?More

  • The Rabbi Supports Pre-Marital Masturbation

     It is my considered opinion that we should accept and strongly advocate private masturbation as the method of choice for the relief of all pre-marital sexual urges. I say this after examining both the classical sources, which are universally negative when discussing this topic; and the reality of our times, which creates an impossible no-win situation for our teen-agers.The Torah tells the following story of Er and Onan, the sons of Judah, one of Joseph’ s older brothers in Genesis 37:2-9:“Judah took the daughter of a Canaanite man to be his wife.More

  • Hello New Orleans

     I have loving cousins who live in New Orleans. They, like everyone else, had to evacuate their home and city during Hurricane Katrina. Fortunately for them, we have family in Atlanta, so that's where they went.More

  • New Orleans Grief

     In a New York Times article on December 11, 2005, Clifford J. Levy remarks that "it has become almost taboo to discuss any proposal more modest than an immediate and total rebuilding...Suggest that New Orleans needs to consider repopulating only elevated areas, leaving especially flood-prone ones to lie fallow, and you will be shouted down.More

  • Tookie Williams- Life or Death?

     What a sad story. Stanley "Tookie" Williams is scheduled to be executed Tuesday Dec. 13 for the 1979 slayings of four people in two separate robberies.More

  • Why Couldn't President Bush Just Say "I'm Sorry?"

     In the most recent New York Times Sunday edition, there was a poignant article at the end of the Magazine section, written by Dr. Abraham Verghese, a Professor at the University of Texas Health Sciences Center in San Antonio. Dr.More