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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Dec 64 min read
How Will We Get Through the Next Four Years? Thoughts from Parashat Vayeitzei
( istockphoto.com ) How will we get through the next four years? This week’s Torah portion, Vayetzei, offers some answers. Though there...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Oct 214 min read
This Year, We All Need Protection
Dinner in Cantor David Frommer’s sukkah in his San Francsico home, Oct. 10, 2017. (David A.M. Wilensky/J. Staff) The wrenching...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Oct 164 min read
Why I Couldn't Pray on Yom Kippur
TOPSHOT – A Palestinian girl looks for salvageable items amid the destruction on the southern outskirts of Khan Yunis in the war-battered...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 254 min read
Hagar, Enslaved Woman
Traveling recently on a Racial Justice Pilgrimage of leaders of the Conservative/Masorti movement, I visited a remarkable place called...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 34 min read
New Possibilities Every Moment
As Elul approaches, the exhortations of the High Holidays begin to ring in our ears, calling us to examine our lives and begin anew. I...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jul 184 min read
Hope in the Midst of War and Grief
Immediately after landing at Ben Gurion Airport in May, we encountered an enormous display of large posters of the hostages still held in...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jul 144 min read
Jewish Teachings on Anger in a World Full of Rage
("Moses Strikes the Rock" by Richard Andre, 1884) In a world full of rage, this week’s Torah portion (Hukat) brings us an important...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jul 74 min read
The Land Belongs to God
I can only dream of what would happen if both peoples said to one another, "You know, the land doesn't really belong to either of us."
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Apr 193 min read
Every Year We Must See Ourselves as if We Were There
As Jews, we must remember that we were slaves in Egypt. As Americans, we a part of the chain of history that includes the horrors of slavery
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Apr 134 min read
How will this Passover Seder be different from all other Passover Seders?
How do we encourage robust conversation at the seder about what is on all of our minds and hearts without making war on each other?
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Apr 74 min read
When Silence is the Wisest Response
We live in a time of cacophony. It is hard to avoid the insistent opinions, accusations and proclamations, both external and — for many...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Mar 281 min read
Reflections on the Conservative/Masorti Racial Justice Pilgrimage
Leaders of the Conservative Movement reflect on our recent Racial Justice Pilgrimage
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Mar 114 min read
On the Art and Practice of Generosity
A perfect opportunity to think about the virtue and practice of generosity, even in difficult times.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jan 2911 min read
Lovingkindness in a Time of War
Often, I cannot do anything that feels substantial enough. But I can offer kindness to people lost in sadness, fear and anger.
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Dec 14, 20234 min read
Stop the War and Bring in the Light: Parashat Vayeshev
We live in the midst of several wars these days. Even with some hopeful signs on the ground, our hearts are consumed with pain and worry...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Oct 22, 20234 min read
Prayer in Dark Times
'Noah's Ark on Mount Ararat’ (1570) by Flemish painter Simon de Myle (courtesy of JWeekly) We are all reeling from the attack on Israel...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 20, 20234 min read
Who Shall Live and Who Shall Die? The State of Israel Passes before God
On Rosh Hashanah, it is written and on Yom Kippur, it is sealed: How many will die and how many will be born? Who will live and who will...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 4, 20231 min read
Jewish Wisdom on Reparations and Teshuvah
(Image from KQED) I'm proud to say that I recently published a piece on Jewish wisdom on reparations, with reference to the work of the...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Sep 3, 20234 min read
On the Power of Blessings and Curses
(Getty Images/StockPhoto) It is the season of blessings and curses. Three weeks ago, we read the majestic words, “See, this day, I set...
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Rabbi Amy Eilberg
Jul 14, 20234 min read
Is this Torah? Is this Judaism?
("Moses Ordering the Slaughter of the Midianites" by Claes Cornelisz Moeyaert, 1650, courtesy of jweekly.com) There are many beautiful...
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