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Working Towards Full Repentance – D’var Parshat Vayiggash 8738 – given 31 December 2022
When learning about the steps of Teshuvah – the repair and return to a good place that is meant to happen after we “break” a relationship, a trust, or someone else’s property – we don’t always learn about the final step – the proof that the intention behind the apology and repair was sincere and… →
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Ich Judenwochen – A Lone Jew in the Kraichgau
“Oh wait! Are you Jewish?” This was said to me in a lecture that I sat in on at the Jewish Studies Institute in Heidelberg. The lecture was in German and I had been doing my best, aided by Google Translate, to follow along. It also helped that it was on the Crusades and Jewish… →
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Teaching the Holocaust in Germany
Teaching about Jewish resistance during the Holocaust as a Jewish visitor to German schools. (Again out of order chronologically, but fresh, and heavy, on my mind…) This week I spent two days teaching at a gymnasium – “college prep” high school – in Heilbronn. I was speaking in their Religious Education classes, a History class… →
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Arguing for the Sake of Justice – William Cooper and Kristallnacht
“William Cooper stood to gain nothing from his actions. He had no connection to the Jews of Europe. But he knew what it was like to be persecuted based on one’s racial or ethnic identity and did not wish that on anyone else.” →
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