I would like to cast my vote for the traditional shul. It is a gallant institution which has survived upheavals in culture and politics and continues to reinvent itself and requires no apologies. Here’s why I like shuls: It is a place where you learn to get along with people you don’t like. This is … More »
Author Archives: Rabbi Dan Shevitz
October 3, 2012
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Which Yonah?
September 19, 2012
So, when I was asked to blog about Yonah, for some reason I thought “which Yonah?” There’s Yonah the Prophet: morose, laconic, depressed, suicidal, insulated, as all the Shma authors have illustrated. But then there’s Yonah the Bird, the dove sent out from Noah’s floating Box (a better translation for tevah than “ark”). Yonah the … More »
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