Learning Torah with Dr. Ruth Calderon
For I have given you a good instruction; do not forsake my Teaching. (Proverbs 4:2) What a pleasure to learn Talmud from Dr. Ruth Calderon this evening at the gala for ARZA in New York City.
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Last Sunday I sat in the pew of the Church of the Holy Spirit in Wayland for the last time. After fifty years the church is closing its doors and its members are scattering.
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There’s been a lot to say about the act of American terrorism in Charleston, SC, last week, where 9 people were murdered in the historic Emanuel AME Church—a lot to say about gun violence; the...
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“The arc of the moral universe is long,” quoted Martin Luther King, “but it bends toward justice.” Dr. King employed that phrase in several important speeches during his lifetime. He was quoting Rev....
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