Holy Doubt
Rabbi Debra Orenstein
December 7, 2006
This week\’s Torah portion contains a story that most of us skipped in Hebrew school — the story of Dina.
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Where Streets Were Paved With Sorrow
Holly Lebowitz Rossi
January 19, 2006
Vincent introduces us to three women who illuminate three very different aspects of the shameful reality of white slavery that existed in Latin America between 1860 and 1939.
Many With Gaucher Unaware of Disease
Andrea Waxman
December 1, 2005
Gaucher is sufficiently rare that many doctors weren\’t and still aren\’t aware of it. And when LaBelle was diagnosed, \”they were just doing research, and there was not a glimmer of hope\” for a treatment, she said
After the Ashes
Rabbi Elazar Muskin
March 24, 2005
Natan Sharansky\’s attitude is as old as the Bible. This week\’s Torah portion began with a description of the olah, the obligatory burnt offering that was brought twice a day — morning and afternoon — to the Holy Temple.
Face to Face
Rob Eshman
May 27, 2004
Before he was the Buddha, or Enlightened One, Prince Siddhartha lived a luxurious life behind the walls of his family castle. But each time he ventured out, the legend goes, he discovered the lame, the halt, the dying. His squire, Chandara, convinced him to ignore such things, as the world was full of suffering. Then his wife gave birth, and Siddhartha, at 29, was struck by the inexplicable mysteries of life and death. Late one night, he kissed his sleeping wife and newborn son goodbye and wandered out of the palace with Chandara to find the answer to how one overcomes sufferin
Danger in Not Knowing Our Story
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
April 15, 2004
Claire Luce Booth, the wife of the owner of Luce Publications, reported a frank conversation with a Jewish friend. Booth said, \”I must admit being positively bored by all this talk of the Holocaust and its constant repetition of Jewish suffering.\” The Jewish friend replied, \”I know just how you feel. I feel exactly the same way about the Crucifixion.\”
Each would like to see the other\’s story go away. But neither will go away. Golgotha and Auschwitz, the Crucifixion and the Holocaust, remain the dybbuk of our culture. They must both be confronted and understood.
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Seung Hwa Hong
April 17, 2003
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