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B’shallah: Hands Up!

By David Hazony. The stories in this week’s reading may seem disjointed, but in fact they form a single unit.  A modern editor, looking for a groovy chapter title, might have called the collection, “Ancient Israel’s Bipolar Moment.” Or, even more flippantly, “Hands Up!”

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Revolution in Jewish Life Called Limmud

Limmud Life: Events like the recent Limmud New York getaway are taking up space in the Jewish world that synagogues once exclusively occupied. By David Hazony In a Jewish religious landscape dominated by denominations struggling to compete for dollars and daveners, the idea that the three big faith streams might fade into irrelevance, supplanted by a robust “just Jewish” identity, sounds like a fantasy.

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Mikeitz: Joseph’s Torture

By David Hazony How to make sense of Joseph?

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“The Insecurity of American Jewish life is laid bare” – Commentary by David Hazony

By David Hazony. This is a difficult moment for American Jews. To wake up and discover, as did the Forward’s Gal Beckerman, that the Israeli Ministry of Absorption is actively trying to convince Israeli expatriates living in the U.S. that they should come back to Israel by dramatizing the risk of assimilation of their kids and grandkids — this is a cause for outrage.

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The Blinding of Isaac and Is It Really About Lies – David Hazony

By David Hazony If you take a fresh, unadorned look at the life of Isaac, son of Abraham, you might feel like you’ve walked into a bad remake of a great film. Many of the same plot lines are there, but without much of the magic.

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The Ten Commandments Part IV – When God Says No Does He Really Mean Yes

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David Hazony presents his insights on the Ten Utterances-Things-Commandments that have impacted  the moral and ethical charge of Jews and non-Jews alike. David Hazony brings to life a  fresh new look at the Ten Things-Utterances-Commandments spoken to Moses on Sinai. In this 4th of 5 sessions he covers  commandments 6 through 9. The four shall Nots.

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