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Jun 18, 2013

Balak #ParshaTweet: Sorcerers, talking donkeys, and mid-air transmogrified curses teach one thing: magic is real and must be used for good.

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MUSTREAD if you are brave enough to build a pluralistic Jewish Future

MUSTREAD if you are brave enough to build a  pluralistic Jewish Future: Rabbi Marc Baker's  graduation speech @GannAcademy http://t.co/T8WHb8fJwo

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Jun 17, 2013

The impulse toward mehadrisnism is rooted in the hard-to-dispell internal senses of personal inadequacy and religious inauthenticity which combine to provoke self-flagellation and a ritually expressed Jewish obsessive compulsion.

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    Reflections May, 2013
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    Fwd: [Shefa] Conservative Jewish College Students of America's Response to USCJ's Announcement to Eliminate KOACH
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Rabbi Menachem Creditor serves as the spiritual leader of Congregation Netivot Shalom in Berkeley, CA. Named by Newsweek as one of the 50 most influential rabbis in America (2013), he is a published author, musician, teacher and activist who has spent time working in Ghana with American Jewish World Service and in the White House with the PICO Network to amplify the prophetic Jewish voice in the world. His most recent books are "Peace in Our Cities: Rabbis Against Gun Violence" and "Slavery, Freedom, and Everything Between." A frequent speaker on Jewish Leadership and Literacy in communities around the United States and Israel, he serves on many boards, including the Executive Council for the Rabbinical Assembly, and the Chancellor’s Rabbinic Leadership team for the Jewish Theological Seminary of America.
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