A Headstone for Zach
People told us that it would get better, the grief. But how was this different from forgetting? March 21, 2022 … Continue reading A Headstone for Zach
Changing Spiritual Care: A Bolshevik Approach?
This post will especially be of interest to those concerned with the field of chaplaincy (also called spiritual care or … Continue reading Changing Spiritual Care: A Bolshevik Approach?
About
This is a blog about Jewish life, community, and thought, pastoral care/chaplaincy/spiritual care, and personal, community, and wider world issues … Continue reading About
“Make America Good Again” and a drash about Israel
https://newrepublic.com/article/165593/counter-exceptionalism-make-america-good “Make America Good Again The United States is neither uniquely great nor uniquely evil. Understanding this reality is the … Continue reading “Make America Good Again” and a drash about Israel
Sodom and Sin – Lack of hospitality to strangers: Notes for a Torah discussion for Parashat Vayera, 2016
Vayera – Dvar Torah notes November 19, 2016 Robert Tabak, Minyan Dorshei Derekh, Germantown Jewish Centre, Philadelphia Abraham and guests, … Continue reading Sodom and Sin – Lack of hospitality to strangers: Notes for a Torah discussion for Parashat Vayera, 2016
Cemeteries and Fragments: A Yizkor Kavvanah
In recent weeks I visited two locations with broken Jewish tombstones. A few days after the news of the vandalism to Mount Carmel cemetery in Northeast Philadelphia, I was there as a rabbi aiding the multi-faith cleanup efforts…. A few weeks later I was in Barcelona… Continue reading Cemeteries and Fragments: A Yizkor Kavvanah
Wrestling with Jewish Peoplehood
In April, 2016, the Mordecai Kaplan Center and co-sponsors organized a Shabbaton and a a major conference in Philadelphia on Jewish … Continue reading Wrestling with Jewish Peoplehood
Passover Seder: Inclusion and Exclusion
At the recent (April, 2016) conference and Shabbaton in Philadelphia sponsored by the Mordecai Kaplan Center on Wrestling with Jewish … Continue reading Passover Seder: Inclusion and Exclusion
Bernie Sanders’ Middle East Peace Ideas Ignored
Sanders’ Israel-PA Peace Ideas Get Ignored — by Robert Tabak Senator Bernie Sanders has focused almost exclusively on US economic … Continue reading Bernie Sanders’ Middle East Peace Ideas Ignored
Segmented Purim, Segmented Mourning
Sometimes, celebration is segmented. Sometimes mourning is segmented. What happens when the one we are mourning lived much of his … Continue reading Segmented Purim, Segmented Mourning
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