Before participating in NPR’s Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me, the host Peter Sagal will ask contestants to tell a little about themselves. Most phone-in callers will offer a job title in response, to which Peter will offer a quip depending…
Torah Thought – Vayeshev – Genesis.37.1-40.23 – “The Blessing of a Shooting Star”
The first time I really experienced God. I mean really experienced God. I was at Camp Ramah in the Poconos in the summer of 1982. I was eight years old, just entering fourth grade. Our age-group was woken up by…
Torah Thoughts – Vayishlach – Genesis.32.4-36.43 – “More Information More Anxiety”
One of my fellow chaplaincy residents at Albert Einstein Medical Center in North Philadelphia, always used to quote Rabbi Edwin Friedman, the famous family therapist, as saying, “the more information you compile, the more anxiety you will have.” While I…
Torah Thoughts – Vayeitzei – Genesis.28.10-32.3 – “Why We Matter to One Another”
The first time I attended a Buffalo Bills game a decade ago, it was half empty. The mood in the stadium was apathetic, fans hardly paying attention to what was going on below on the field. After sixteen years of…
Rabbi Alex Lazarus-Klein High Holy Days Sermons 5784 / 2023
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