Our world is filled with microcosms. Walk into a school or an office building, and you’ll observe a fully functioning miniature community with its own rules, operational procedures, and social norms. Airports are another example; I’m always awed by what it takes to operate the world of the airport, from the flight crews to the maintenance workers to the airport employees.
Ever since the Superbowl half time show, the blogosphere and the media have been analyzing Beyoncé's allusion to the Black Panthers and the Black Lives Matter movement. (For those who didn't catch it, the dancers' black leather and berets referenced the Panther's uniforms.) Unsurprisingly, it's not just Jews who hold multiple opinions!
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D'var from Saturday, February 13th - Rabbi David Kosak. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
D'var from Friday, February 5th - Rabbi Eve Posen. D'var from Saturday, February 6th - Rabbi David Kosak. Recorded and edited by Ed Kraus.
Giving freely of yourself to help others – it’s parenting AND Judaism in a nutshell.
What is the value of a human being? This sounds like a rhetorical question. After all, if we are created in the image of God, then isn't the value of every person infinite, priceless? Isn't that a basic belief of Judaism and even of American society?
