Judaism for the Thinking Person
By Rabbi Nadav Caine
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Aug 20, 2023
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Scholarly, Compassionate, and Practical Jewish Teachings on God, Prayer, Torah and Kabbalah with Rabbi Nadav Caine (ravnadav)
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The AI Gods Taking Away our Souls and Our Community
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Dec 08, 2025 |
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Parashat Toldot: Is Imposter Syndrome a Fault or a Gift from God?
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Nov 20, 2025 |
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What Can the Rabbinic Debate about Noah Teach Us About Equity?
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Maimonides' Laws of War & Talking About Gaza
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Oct 19, 2025 |
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Getting "Miracles" Right in Judaism and in Our Lives (Yom Kippur Sermon 2025)
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Oct 09, 2025 |
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Parashat Behaalotkhah: Grievance and Getting the Leaders We Deserve
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Aug 21, 2025 |
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Pinchas and Superman as our Mirror
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Jul 24, 2025 |
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Abraham Joshua Heschel Second Class: Ethics vs Holiness
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Abraham Joshua Heschel First Class: Gratitude, Awe, and Actually Connecting to God
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May 23, 2025 |
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Passover as the Secret High Holidays: Making Your Rosh Hashanah Resolutions Real Halfway Through the Journey
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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The Mishkan, Indigenous Wisdom, and the Right to Repair
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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A People of the Book and a Generation That Has Never Read One
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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The Tower of Babel and the Problem of Identity-Based "Truths"
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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Misunderstanding Consent, Property and Patriarchy in Jewish Wedding Ceremonies
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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Moving Beyond the Progressive Lens to True Religion (Yom Kippur 2024)
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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We're All Looking for Empathy after October 7th, Including Me! (Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2024)
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Oct 06, 2024 |
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Writing G-d and the Danger of Idolatry
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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Did a Biblical Outlaw Understand the Arab-Israel Conflict Better than Today's Students?
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Jul 14, 2024 |
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The Biblical Battle of the AI Priesthood Lineage
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May 21, 2024 |
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Amalekites, Gaza and the End of Megillat Esther on Purim
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Mar 24, 2024 |
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The 19th Century Reform Rabbi Who Changed Physics
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Feb 19, 2024 |
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The Israelites Left Egypt Armed: Gender & Chauvinism Preceding October 7
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Jan 30, 2024 |
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Who Gets to Be a Spokesperson for Israel? The Soft of Heart and Slow of Speech
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Jan 15, 2024 |
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Tikkun Olam and Redeeming the Hostages
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Dec 23, 2023 |
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Halakhah and Aggadah: The Ten Stories We Tell PART TWO
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Dec 01, 2023 |
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Halakhah and Aggadah: The Ten Stories We Tell PART ONE
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Nov 23, 2023 |
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Is There a Fear of God In This Place? Our Different Experiences of the Israel Gaza Conflict
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Nov 06, 2023 |
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The Commandment of Shevut: How Do We Handle its Inherent Subjectivity?
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Oct 16, 2023 |
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The Kol Nidrei Ritual: Stepping into Your Future Self
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Sep 26, 2023 |
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Hineni Resolutions: I’m Ready but Are They?
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Sep 24, 2023 |
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The Genders Within God, and Within Ourselves!
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Sep 18, 2023 |
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The Three Covenants: God Cares About God’s Brand. Do You?
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Jul 24, 2023 |
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Is the Book of Numbers about Remote Work?
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Jun 16, 2023 |
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Be Someone Else: Victor Turner and the Subversiveness of Ritual Performance
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Jun 04, 2023 |
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”Make Yourself a Wilderness” To Receive Torah
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May 25, 2023 |
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Jubilee and the Passing on of Generational Wealth
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May 19, 2023 |
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Two Forms of Action: Embodying the Kabbalistic Forces of Netzach and Hod
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May 08, 2023 |
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Torah In a Minute: What’s the Big Deal About the Lunar Calendar?
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Apr 26, 2023 |
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The Golden Calf and the Present Government in Israel
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Mar 13, 2023 |
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Jewish Law, Head Covering, and Knowing Before Whom You Stand
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Feb 20, 2023 |
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God the Stutterer, God the Reluctant
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Feb 01, 2023 |
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The Unalloyed Joy of Grandparenting
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Jan 10, 2023 |
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Oppenheimer: The 20th Century ”Joseph”
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Dec 29, 2022 |
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Achieving our Dreams while Living with Anxiety
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Dec 20, 2022 |
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Eco-Burial and Jewish Law
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Nov 20, 2022 |
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Listening Like It’s Shivah
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Nov 10, 2022 |
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The Spiral of Progress/History
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Learning from 12 Step: The ”El Anon” Theology of the Exile Prophets
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Nov 01, 2022 |
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Those in 12 Step Recovery are Our Teachers (Rosh Hashanah Sermon 2022)
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Oct 21, 2022 |
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Chatter and Our Relationship with God through Our Relationship with Our Inner Voice
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Oct 09, 2022 |
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Moses the Mother in Transition (Ilana Kurshan’s Teaching)
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Aug 28, 2022 |
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Eikev and the Torah of Ambivalence
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Aug 21, 2022 |
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Ableism, Torah, and ”Greatness Comes from Being Lifted Up By Your Brothers”
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May 22, 2022 |
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Judaism and Abortion: The Process of the Decision IS Religion
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May 10, 2022 |
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Believing in Miracles (or not) in 5 Minutes
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Apr 19, 2022 |
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Is the Wailing Wall an Orthodox Synagogue? The Kotel Agreement, Yuval Noah Harari and Anat Hoffman
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Mar 18, 2022 |
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Self-Improvement, Judgment, and Seeing God’s Back
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Feb 21, 2022 |
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Clothing God? Sewing as an Act of Lovingkindness
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Feb 14, 2022 |
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Does God Have a Plan for Us?
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Jan 30, 2022 |
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Lecture: Halakhic Sources, the Fetus, and the Morality of Abortion
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Jan 17, 2022 |
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Patriarchy, Gaze, Voice and Intersectionality? Exodus and bell hooks
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Dec 28, 2021 |
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Joseph‘s Brothers and Robert Bly‘s The Sibling Society
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Dec 22, 2021 |
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Joseph, Hanukkah, and the Assimilation Narrative
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Dec 13, 2021 |
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The Incommunicability of Experience and the Rape of Dinah
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Nov 29, 2021 |
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Dara Horn‘s ”People Love Dead Jews” and the Erasure of Jewish Difference
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Nov 17, 2021 |
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Changing our Relationship with Time from Productivity to Presence
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Nov 01, 2021 |
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The Potentially Limitless Commandment of Honoring Parents As They Age
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Oct 26, 2021 |
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Combatting the Curses Against Israel with History, not more Scapegoating
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Oct 10, 2021 |
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Instagram, Depression and the Serpent Voice: ”And They Knew They Were Naked”
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Oct 04, 2021 |
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The Halakhah of Zoom Minyan: Adding Windows to the House of Israel
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Sep 26, 2021 |
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The Victim Triangle: Moving from Blame to Self-Creation, from Drama to Authenticity
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Sep 17, 2021 |
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It‘s Time to End the Fertility Bias: Our Shame in Shutting Out Those Without Children
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Sep 10, 2021 |
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Saving One Life is Saving the World: Jewish Law and the Death Penalty
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Aug 16, 2021 |
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The Depth of Loving Torah and Being Loved Through It: Being Taught is to Be Loved
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Aug 02, 2021 |
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Leading our Children to Transcendence
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Jun 13, 2021 |
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Reopening the Synagogue When People Are Coming up the Down Staircase
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May 26, 2021 |
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God the Mother
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May 09, 2021 |
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Ross Douthat, Biblical Impurity, and Antipathy toward the Temple
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Apr 30, 2021 |
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Jewish Law on Cremation and Burial, and What We're Facing as the Numbers Rise
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Apr 22, 2021 |
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The Tabernacle -- and our Lives-- as a Purposeful Composition
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Mar 22, 2021 |
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Keruvim, Cherubim, Griffins, Sphinxes, and the angel Rafael
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Mar 10, 2021 |
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The Building of the Tabernacle through the Lens of the Black Church
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Mar 04, 2021 |
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Making Sense of the Most Disturbing Statement in the Bible
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Mar 01, 2021 |
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"God, Let me receive good counsel!" The 5 minute practice that will change your life
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Feb 17, 2021 |
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Jonah versus Moshe: When Do We Hold the King Accountable and When Do We Move On?
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Feb 02, 2021 |
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Zikaron and the Filibuster: The Memory of Slavery and Dreaming God's Dream for America
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Jan 24, 2021 |
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Geneivat Daat: The Theft of Subjectivity by Media and its Pull Upon Us in the name of Justice
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Jan 18, 2021 |
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The Dreams of Genesis and Our Dreams: Our Alignment with the God World
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Dec 21, 2020 |
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Reuniting Religion and Psychology: Jacob's Dreams and the Therapeutic Uses of Psilocybin
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Dec 06, 2020 |
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"It's Their Money!"- The Ketubah, Traditional Jewish Marriage, and the Defrauding of Rachel and Leah
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Nov 30, 2020 |
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Two Types of Fear: Avoiding "Ideolatry" in our Political Divide
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Nov 23, 2020 |
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And Sarah was Stroking Avraham's Head: Rilke, Pandemic & The Intimacy of Caring for the Dead
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Nov 16, 2020 |
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Sarah's Laugh and the Wisdom of Menopause
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Nov 08, 2020 |
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The Sarah & Hagar Narratives: Rethinking Privilege Through the Gift of Life in Genesis
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Oct 30, 2020 |
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3 Dimensions of Time Intersecting in Shemini Atzeret & the Poetry of Louise Gluck
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Oct 14, 2020 |
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Filtering Out the Noise by Practicing Essentialism Under Pandemic
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Sep 30, 2020 |
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"The Clothes On Your Back Did Not Wear Out" - The Cost of Our Clothes
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Does Pursuing Justice Begin with Carrying Around the Emoluments Clause?
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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"You Must Extend a Loan to Your Brother" - Racial Discrimination in Lending Today
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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The Conquest of The Land and The Problematic of "Indigenousness"
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Aug 09, 2020 |