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Creating Sacred Communities For The Whole of Israel: A Yom Kippur Drash
Creating Communities For the Whole Of Israel: A Dvar Torah for Yom Kippur
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Memory and Moving Forward: A Reflection on Purim 5781
A version of this piece was originally published by SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. Today, I remember. I remember vividly the all-consuming sadness I felt last Purim, as the sun was setting and my celebratory seudah was ending, the last event I attended with a large Jewish community. I…
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The Plurality of Mourning Shabbat Nachamu 5780
This piece originally appeared on SVARA: A Traditionally Radical Yeshiva. Nachamu Nachamu ami, “comfort, comfort my people,”— the opening words of the Haftorah from the book of Isaiah, which we will read this Shabbat, ring particularly poignant this year. What does it mean for us to move from a period of…
Rabbi Lauren Tuchman 