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Comments on Jewish and political topics from a perspective that is progressive, personal, humorous, and humane. My professional blog is Communicate! (www.dennisfischman.com).

Saturday, December 5, 2015

Inheriting Abraham, by Jon D. Levenson

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Someone once said that the U.S. and the U.K. are two nations divided by a common language. We both speak English, but oh, the different wa...

Saturday, November 7, 2015

How Should a Person Be?, by Sheila Heti

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When I was a small boy, my father told me that it was important for a person to be able to laugh at himself. On my first day of school, the ...

Saturday, June 27, 2015

Social Issues and Torah: Torah Based Responses to Homosexuality

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I am not an Orthodox Jew, so my approach to Torah and sexuality is very different, but I found this blog entirely worth reading. Social Is...

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Was there an exodus?

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"The book of Exodus claims that the God of Israel overmastered Ramesses the Great by several orders of magnitude, effectively trouncin...

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Welcome to My World: Wrestling with Rebels

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The Torah portion that Noah Carton-Smith spoke about at his bar mitzvah today at Temple B'nai Brith has fascinated me for years. You can...

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