echoes of michael jackson #779
05/19/2023 05:03:20 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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If you’ve spent most of your life living outside New York, visiting “the city” can be daunting.
And so, it was—about 20 years ago—when I began visiting New York in search of a rabbinical school that would be right for me.
Early one Monday afternoon, as I left the Jewish Theological Seminary (JTS) after a half day of touring and attending...Read more...
the legacy of lesley sue goldstein #778
05/12/2023 05:12:00 AM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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In 1963, at 17, a singer named Lesley Sue Goldstein recorded a song, which in many ways came to define the feminist movement.
The song was written by John Madara and David White, who searched unsuccessfully for someone to perform it until it caught...Read more...
eye for eye: leaving revenge behind #777
05/05/2023 05:09:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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Villager: We should defend ourselves. An eye for an eye—A tooth for a tooth! Tevya: Very good. That way the whole world will be blind and toothless.
This brief exchange between the villager and Tevya portrays...Read more...
Hogan's Heroes, israel & the holocaust #776
04/28/2023 03:39:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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This week, a tightly packed manila envelope arrived at our home. When I opened it, it smelled a bit like 1966.
I had ordered its contents from eBay a week earlier, sparked by a vague memory triggered by the recent passing of legendary Mad Magazine cartoonist Al Jaffee.
As a young person, every month I would scan the magazine rack...Read more...
The Sound of silence #774
04/14/2023 05:22:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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On December 29, 2011, I decided to attend the funeral in Montreal—of a rabbinical colleague’s mother, who happened to be the late-life companion of my uncle.
It seemed like the right thing to do.
What better way to comfort both my close friend and my uncle than...Read more...
passover: eating from the kid's menu #773
04/07/2023 01:43:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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This past week, as clergy throughout the area were asked by the media for their Passover or Easter messages, I was particularly moved by the words of one rabbi.
Rabbi Matthew Gewirtz noted, “Kids today are spiritually ravenous, but institutionally suspicious.”
His words cut to the core of what many term a crisis within religion.Kids...Read more...
Passover After the plague #772
03/31/2023 05:19:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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It’s been almost three years to the day, that each of us entered one of the most fragile and uncertain periods of our lives.
Do you remember Passover, 2020?
What was this plague that afflicted us? There were so many questions—so many unknowns.
Would we, our family and friends survive? What about humanity? Who would protect us?...Read more...
Life: We are never done #771
03/24/2023 05:17:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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There is a life philosophy which I hold dear.
I believe in the Kabbalistic teaching that each of us has something unique to contribute to the...Read more...
what is your exodus story #770
03/17/2023 05:32:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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Perhaps one of the saddest side effects of today’s “me-focused” society is that too many have forgotten where they come from.
When my paternal grandfather arrived in North America just after World War I, he hauled ice blocks up long flights of stairs to help keep his customers' ice boxes cold.
My maternal grandfather, days after reaching our shores in...Read more...
Losing our patience #769
03/10/2023 06:08:00 PM
Rabbi Irwin Huberman
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"Come, make us a god who shall go before us, for that fellow Moses—the man who brought us from the land of Egypt—we do not know what has happened to him. ” (Exodus 32:1).
Losing our PatienceThese days, it doesn’t take much for us to become impatient.
When we call someone, and it goes to voice mail—we become irritated. When the train to the city is delayed by...Read more...
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echoes of michael jackson #779
Friday, May 19 5:03pmthe legacy of lesley sue goldstein #778
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Friday, May 5 5:09pmHogan's Heroes, israel & the holocaust #776
Friday, Apr 28 3:39pmThe Sound of silence #774
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