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Guest Post: Finding Justice in Jonah
Reading a Reluctant Prophet Through a Neurodivergent Lens
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Shana tova!
Happy new year to all who celebrate! Blessings to everyone, whether or not you do!
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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On Prayer
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, begins on Friday night! High Holy Day season is here! I thought that this might be a nice time to talk about …
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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The Jews and the Romans: Mullet Hair and Bathhouse Statues
Hi! Since Monday we talked a bit about Jews and Greeks, I thought it’d be fun to look at some later Rabbinic texts looking at the Jews’ relation…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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When Torah met Sofia
Judaism and Hellenism: A Case Study Of Sorts
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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August 2023
"...as if lit by a begrudging wax candle."
Celia Dropkin's fierce gaze
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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What's going on
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On Learning
We do a lot of learning, but we don’t talk much about learning, so let’s do that today. There are a lot of things to learn, a lot of different k…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Leviticus, I Hardly Knew Ya!
Saying baaaaaaaaaahhh baaaaaaaaaahhh to the Torah's middle book
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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A Psalm for Elul
Happy Elul! Today is beginning of the month Elul, the month immediately preceding (the month in which) Rosh Hashanah (appears, called Tishrei. R…
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Resetting the Board
Systems of Economic Justice in Torah
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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg
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Ain't nothin' better than the satisfaction
The writer Caroline Knapp once noted (in the days before Instagram targeted marketing), "Some twelve billion display ads, three million radio co…
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