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Making My Son’s Vision a Reality

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Seeing the Importance of Israel Through College-Bound Eyes

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News that a deal has been reached to free Gilad Shalit sparked cries of joy throughout the Jewish world this week. We applaud the Israeli government for making a tortuous decision and we fervently pray that he arrives home safely and soon so the healing process can begin and the anguish and torment that has engulfed his family will come...

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Letters Week of Oct. 5, 2011

An ad took potshots at President Obama and "evangelical" candidates sound just like Mideast demigods.

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Make the Shofar Blast a Call to Serve

By:

Jon Rosenberg

Those who observe the Jewish High Holidays are in the midst of a period of intense introspection and "judgment." On Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, piercing shofar blasts will conclude a 25-hour fast, and we will set a course toward making good our obligations to others. This year when the shofar blasts, I hope it will be a call...

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Abandon Us Not as We Age, and Let Us Not Abandon Ourselves

By:

Rabbi Dayle A. Friedman

My friend -- I'll call her Ruth -- was luxuriating, swimming across a friend's New England pond on a beautiful summer day. At some point, she noticed that she was propelling herself across the water with the breaststroke. "Yuck," she thought, "here I am swimming like an old lady." Ruth, who recently turned 70 and retired from an influential professional...

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Starting Over Again

Wouldn't it be nice to wake up the day after Yom Kippur with a truly blank slate? With the opportunity to begin from scratch, to erase all the sins of omission and commission that we registered this past year, and to start all over again? That's the promise of these Days of Awe, but we all know that it's easier...