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remember
In “Remember” a common enemy unites two survivors in a deadly mission
Tom Tugend
March 16, 2016
Action heroes in Hollywood movies are generally handsome, virile studs, handy with a gun or a girl, preferably both.
1,500 raise voices in song to remember Debbie Friedman
Rachel Heller
February 16, 2011
As the piano struck the first notes of Debbie Friedman’s “Elohai N’Shama,” Cantor Linda Kates paused before the approximately 1,500 people gathered in the sanctuary at Valley Beth Shalom (VBS) and recalled a story about how the late singer-songwriter energized a crowd of Jewish students while teaching them the song.
We dare not murder memories of genocide
Rabbi Harold M. Schulweis
April 19, 2007
Amnesia of the past foreshadows amnesia of the future. Forget yesterday\’s tragedy and the threat to tomorrow is denied. Forget the first genocide of the 20th century — the murder of 1.5 million Armenians in 1915 — and the memory and atrocities of the first genocide of the 21st century in Darfur turn invisible, and the world response is muted.
The IDF and Civilians: A Personal Account
Rabbi Daniel Bouskila
July 27, 2006
It was July 12, 1984, my first day on the Ketziot basic training base, my new \”home\” as an IDF soldier in the Givati Infantry Brigade. One by one, we were issued what was then the standard IDF infantry weapon, the Israeli-made Galil rifle.
Out of the Shadows
Rabbi Karen Deitsch
December 15, 2005
Darkness is frightening. It is the realm of uncertainty, with everything enveloped in a state of unified oblivion. The world we call \”real\” — based on substance, physical existence and visible actuality — is nullified by the blackness of night.
Chemistry and the Torah: The Limits of Understanding
Alison Silver
November 3, 2005
Judaism is a simple religion containing many complexities. No one could realistically hope to understand everything. It is important to question and to learn. But when we don\’t understand something, or don\’t agree with something, we need to remember that it doesn\’t give us license to not follow halacha or to not keep the Torah.
In the Seats Around You
Meredith Jacobs
September 29, 2005
The High Holidays make your mind wander — wander around the people around you and no longer around you.
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