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What We Must Know, Do, and Be in the New Year

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on September 29, 2020September 29, 2020

What follows is a text version of my sermon from Yom Kippur day, 5781. Very…

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Same as it Ever Was

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on April 5, 2019

In the fall of 1980 the Talking Heads released their fourth studio album, entitled ‘Remain…

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Looking for Kansas

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on January 30, 2017January 30, 2017

You will remember the famous line from the Wizard of Oz, spoken by Dorothy to…

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U.S. Blues

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on March 4, 2016March 4, 2016

The Grateful Dead canon is filled with references to America, a land (in the Dead’s…

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From Generation to Generation

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on February 28, 2016February 28, 2016

this the text of my Shabbat sermon from 2/27/16 – I have often been told…

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Rage Against the Machine

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on January 21, 2016January 21, 2016

Imagine that. They had it right all along, the science fiction prognosticators, the paranoid prophets…

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Hardening Hearts

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on January 17, 2016January 17, 2016

this the text version of my Shabbat sermon from 1/16/16 – There are certain ideas…

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  • freewill

Basheirt

  • by Steve Schwartz
  • Posted on September 3, 2015

You’ve heard the term. Most commonly we use it when talking about two people who…

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