Recent Writings
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Parashat Pinchas: Leading to better communication and understanding
Read more →: Parashat Pinchas: Leading to better communication and understandingParashat Balak (last week’s reading) has quite a disturbing end. The short chapter reads like a report that predicts the end of “Project Exodus”. The situation in the…
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Why Shabbat Is the Opposite of Busy, and Five Ways to Get in on It
Read more →: Why Shabbat Is the Opposite of Busy, and Five Ways to Get in on ItWhat does Shabbat mean to us? Why do we need this day of rest? Carly L. Goldberg in her essay touched these important questions. “Busy”: It’s a word that rolls…
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Chukkat: A wonderful role model
Read more →: Chukkat: A wonderful role modelReading Parashat Chukkat, we engage ourselves quite often in the discussion of Moses’ big mistake which resulted in God’s severe punishment. Why is he prohibited to enter the…
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Temple Israel represents the early history of progressive Jews in South Africa
Read more →: Temple Israel represents the early history of progressive Jews in South AfricaThis week we are going to celebrate the 80th birthday of Temple Israel. What a great milestone!I have over the years been involved on a regular basis at…
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Parashat Sh’lach Lecha: We looked like grasshoppers to ourselves
Read more →: Parashat Sh’lach Lecha: We looked like grasshoppers to ourselvesI think it’s fair to say that just about everybody knows that the Israelites were condemned to wander in the wilderness for forty years – a biblical generation.…
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In Conversation with the Mystic
Read more →: In Conversation with the MysticLast week I received an invitation to participate in an amazing event “In Conversation with the Mystic” An intimate discussion between South African Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan, and…
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What in God’s name is happening in this, our world?
Read more →: What in God’s name is happening in this, our world?The news on Sunday was shocking, confusing, and unspeakably tragic.What in God’s name is happening in this, our world? Last week Tel Aviv, this Sunday Orlando, and next…
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Today we weep – the day after Orlando
Read more →: Today we weep – the day after OrlandoThe news on Sunday was shocking, confusing, and unspeakably tragic. What in God’s name is happening in this, our world? Last week Tel Aviv, this Sunday Orlando, and next…
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The Torah belongs to us all
Read more →: The Torah belongs to us allThis coming Sunday we celebrate the giving of the Torah from God to the Jewish people. This extraordinary moment is recorded by the Torah as follows: “You stand…
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The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the Rabbinate
Read more →: The Sacred Calling: Four Decades of Women in the RabbinateI had an amazing childhood. I grew up in a time and place, where I thought that boys and girls were equal; and that anything a boy could…
