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Torah from the Square

The Righteous Mind

I recently finished reading Professor Jonathan Haidt’s new book The Righteous Mind and found it to be utterly fascinating. The objective of the book is to present readers with a nuanced psychologically based reason for why people of good will and character differ so sharply and so strongly on critical issues. He specifically draws our [...]

The Velvet Kippah

Wishing the Worst for Parents

As more of us care for aging parents, the Fifth Commandment might become more important for putting our feelings in perspective than for telling us how to act.

Kabbalah Korner

Shavuot and the Romance-Love Dynamic

A relationship with God is like falling in love; it requires building on the initial attraction and moving into the higher levels of God-experience.

The Girl and the Drash

Hillel vs. History at Chanukah

The real miracle of the Chanukah story is our willful forgetting of the historic Maccabees and their holy war.

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Scenes from Jewish Ritual Life

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