Editor’s Note:What follows is an invocation given by Rabbi Justin Kerber for the Jewish Muslim Day of Service, Jewish Federation, in Saint Louis, Missouri on December 25, 2011. December 25, 2011; the...
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Thomas’ parents had especially high expectations for how his life should proceed. As members of the southern Italiannobility, their several sons all had very precise blueprints for how their lives and...
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*yawn* I am SO tired. Oh, I’m sorry. Mr. Eli keeps telling I’m supposed to cover my mouth when I yawn, but I always forget. I’m sure you all know Mr. Eli, the priest. EVERYONE knows him. I’ve lived here with...
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“Do you hear something?” my wife asked. She was just beginning to accelerate from the on-ramp onto I-75 as we headed home from the Bengals’ game. “No…I…” I said. “Because I think I hear something, and the guy...
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Quint the fisherman, played to perfection by the scene-stealing Robert Shaw in the 1975 Steven Spielberg masterpiece, Jaws, was a rugged, thick-skinned, and independent man who played by his own rules and...
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Mev Puleo didn’t want you to have the opportunity to look away from the unpleasant. One of her many passions was art and her medium was photography.With a point, a click, and some strange alchemy of...
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Last week, the Supreme Court of the United States unanimously held that religious organizations could practice discrimination in their employment practices. I’ll admit that the previous summary was extremely...
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The sages teach: At the Sea of Reeds, Moses thrust out his staff; nothing happened. Then Nachshon ben Aminadav of the tribe of Judah, in his courage and faith, stepped into the sea, the waves pushing him...
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