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Roadside Musings
You Say Potato, I Say Pogrom
Garden City, Idaho looks pretty picturesque. Not so pretty: A candidate for the area’s city council has been spouting anti-Semitic ramblings.
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Asking for Forgiveness During Elul
Rabbi Rami explains why he encourages everyone to take part in asking for forgiveness during Elul, whether they practice Judaism or not.
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What Does Science Fiction Tell Us About the Future of Organized Religion?
“Can it be that Judaism will cease to evolve? Yes. The same is true of Christianity and Islam and any other religion that imagines a golden age that privileges the past over the present and the future.”
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• Judaism
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The God Gap
It isn’t that Generation Z is godless, it’s that they no longer buy into (literally as well as figuratively) the God of the baby boomer generation.
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• God
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Why I Find the Death Penalty Problematic
“Seeking the death penalty and securing the death penalty should not obligate us to implement the death penalty.”
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• Justice
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When Will I Know It Is Time to Leave?
“I was not surprised when I got an email through my blog, asking me how we Jews will know when it is time for us to flee the United States for safer ground.”
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I Am Not a Robot ... I Think
“I love shouting into the phone screaming Agent! Agent! Agent! It never works.”
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Do We Need a New God?
“We need a new understanding of God that allows us to leave behind the zero-sum and xenophobic narratives of country, kin, culture, and parental bias and embrace the diversity of humanity within the greater unity of God.”
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Is This Weed Kosher? And Other Burning Questions
Is this weed kosher? Is this rabbi Jewish? Are these Doritos good, or what?
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What Doesn’t Kill Me Makes Me Funnier
What is my mission here? What is anyone’s mission here? And where can I get a Hawaiian shirt to borrow?
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Why We Don’t Want State Religion
“To put it bluntly: the more power a religion has, the more power a religion wants, and it gets that power at the expense of human freedom.”
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Is It Okay to Grieve for a Pet?
A comforting prayer to use when releasing a pet from this life.
