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We must rededicate ourselves to tolerance

I know that I speak on behalf of everyone present tonight in expressing our gratitude for the way that you and the First Lady have, once again, opened up your home to the Jewish community for an annual White House celebration of Chanukah.

Cambodia’s killing fields revisited

I can vividly remember the first time I visited the Museum of Tolerance, in seventh grade. Not personally knowing anyone who had survived the Holocaust, I had been shielded from the grisly details of World War II.

Jews must never use the term ‘shvartza’

About a year ago I wrote a column about how the word \”shvartza\” must be retired forever. It is an insulting, offensive, and derogatory term that has no place in the mouths of people committed to ethics.

Our place in this world

The ancient rabbis were astute psychologists. They reflected on the inner life, not through theories, but through narratives, especially their analyses of and speculations on the narratives in the Torah.

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