As the health care bill makes its way through the House, I am posting here my Yom Kippur Sermon from last Fall, which was called “Judaism and the Health Care Crisis.” For Jews, health care is not only a financial or political issue – it is a moral issue. “Judaism and the Health Care Crisis,”Continue reading “Judaism & Health Care”
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G-dcasting the Torah
Check out this very cool visual D’var Torah from http://www.G-dCast.com. Each week they post a similar commentary on the parasha, written and narrated by leading thinkers from across the Jewish spectrum. Shabbat Shalom! Parshat Vayakhel from G-dcast.com More Torah cartoons at http://www.g-dcast.com
The Old Shall Be New and the New Shall be Sacred
This quote from Rav Kook (the first Chief Rabbi of Israel) is the theme for this year’s convention of the Central Conference of American Rabbis, which I am attending in San Francisco. The convention, obviously, is about embracing the future and all of its social implications for Judaism. For example, we heard yesterday from JoeContinue reading “The Old Shall Be New and the New Shall be Sacred”
Tu Bishevat. Doing Something About It.
I consider myself an environmentalist. I write about the earth, think about the earth, care about the earth. I wrote my rabbinical thesis partly on Judaism and the environment, and I helped found en environmental advocacy committee in my synagogue. I believe that rethinking our relationship to the earth is THE great challenge and THEContinue reading “Tu Bishevat. Doing Something About It.”
Rabbi Micah Streiffer 