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Holy Anger

Yom Kippur 5776

Most of us have been there at some point — a nasty email from a co-worker, a fight with our partner, some exasperating thing our kid does that’s just the… Read More

Posted: September 25, 2015 by

Remembering Those in Search of Refuge

Rosh Hashanah 5776

In honor of Sheri Rosenberg, of blessed memory. Shana tovah. I feel so blessed to stand here with you today to welcome in the New Year with the BZBI community… Read More

Posted: September 16, 2015 by

Believing is Seeing

Rosh HaShanah 5776 / 14-15 September 2015

Last summer, Chicago’s Art Institute exhibited a major retrospective of work by the Belgian Surrealist painter René Magritte. Magritte, who also worked as an illustrator for advertising agencies, employed a… Read More

Posted: September 16, 2015 by

Retribution and Restitution

Shabbat Shoftim / 22 August 2015

This week’s Torah portion, Shoftim, takes me back to one of the richest and most challenging pages of Talmud I have ever taught. The eighth chapter of tractate Bava Kamma… Read More

Posted: August 23, 2015 by

Compassionate Attention

Shabbat Nahamu 2015

In 1946, Dr. Emmi Pikler, a Hungarian pediatrician, went to work at an orphanage in Budapest. In private practice before the Shoah, Dr. Pikler had developed distinctive ideas about raising… Read More

Posted: August 4, 2015 by
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