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This Is The Place
We are back from our adventures, and we all made it! It was a wonderful trip, full of many great new sites and experiences. We visited family and friends (including a surprise meet-up with my college roommate), explored sand dunes and canyons, discovered fossils, visited an observatory, went on walks and hikes, swam in Lake…
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Atlas
This year I spent a very non-traditional Shavuot on the road, driving north on U.S. Highway 93 from Las Vegas to Wells, Nevada, a drive of almost 400 miles. When we planned this trip, we knew it would take us over the holiday. We were in Vegas at the time visiting family, and although we…
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Mountains and Canyons
There is one blessing I have been saying a lot this trip: Baruch atah Adonai eloheynu melech haolam oseh ma’aseh bereshit Blessed are you, Adonai our God, sovereign of all time and space, who creates the works of Creation. It is the blessing our tradition teaches we say whenever one sees an object of natural…
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Blown Tire
Day one of our big driving and camping trip went well, as we left Olympia for the day’s drive to Boise to visit family. Day two, however, hit a snag. About 20 miles out on the way to Utah, cruising along at the posted 75 mph speed limit, we heard a pop, felt a jolt,…
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On the Road
This week I am setting off on a journey. Yes, I know we use that image a lot to describe our life’s path. But this time I am going on an actual journey. My family and I are leaving town for two weeks on a driving and camping trip into Utah and Arizona and back…
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Expanding the Conversation for a Peaceful Future: On Israel’s 66th Birthday
This past week we moved through the most important holidays of the Israeli civil calendar: Yom Hazikaron, Memorial Day, and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day. These holidays came this year at an interesting time of reflection in the American Jewish community and its relationship with Israel. A few days prior to the observance of these…
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Enduring Shabbat
The other day I had one of those revelations when after you have it, you realize how obvious it should have been all along. More on that in a moment. We are currently in the period of the Omer. On the second night of Passover, we started the practice of counting the Omer-counting the days…
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The Holocaust is…
We have just finished the observance of Passover, in which we recount a historical narrative of slavery and liberation. Each year we read the story, and each year we find something new in it. As we make our way from the sacred observance of Passover, we enter into a season of observances commemorating events that…
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From Goshen to the Sea: Passover as the In-Between
This coming Monday is (unofficially) Red Sea Crossing Day. We mark Passover at this time of year because this is the time of the events of the Exodus as recounted in the Torah. According to the Torah the march out of Egypt began on the 15th of Nissan, the first day of Passover. It was…
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