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Month: March 2015

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Our Spring Israel Trip

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 29, 2015

this a text version of yesterday’s Shabbat sermon (3/28) reflecting on our recent trip to…

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A Case of Laryngitis

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 27, 2015March 27, 2015

Would be absolutely the worst thing for a rabbi. After all, when you come down…

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Israel As She Is

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 21, 2015

We’ve seen all of it, the best and the worst, the highs and the lows. …

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When Am I?

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 16, 2015

Not a typo.  Reading it, your mind may have made an automatic correction, more used…

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The Road Goes Ever On and On

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 11, 2015

The title of a walking song/poem composed by J.R.R. Tolkien.  As Bilbo the hobbit leaves…

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A Speech About ‘the Speech’

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 8, 2015

Here the text of yesterday’s Shabbat sermon (3/7/15) There are certain things that all you…

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Neither nor Snow nor Heat nor Gloom of Night…

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 6, 2015

It may not be true for the Post Office any more, but it is for…

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Strange But True Stories from the Rabbinate

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 2, 2015

It is supposed to be a happy week for the Jews, with Purim coming Wednesday…

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