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How Can I Stand Before Our Father in 2015?
Rabbi Knopf's Saturday message for Parashat Va-Yiggash (December 27, 2014): Reviewing the past year from the perspective of Torah. Â
Perfect Imperfection
Rabbi Knopf's Friday message for Parashat Va-Yiggash (December 26, 2014): How to not let the perfect be the enemy of the good in our lives Â
Parenting from the Inside Out
Rabbi Knopf's Friday message for Parashat Va-Yeshev (December 12, 2014): The way to become better parents (and better everything) is to learn about and improve ourselves. Â
Implicit Bias and Dangerous Silence
Rabbi Knopf's Saturday message for Parashat Va-Yishlah (December 6, 2014): Following the police killings of Eric Garner and Michael Brown, and the failure to indict the officers responsible, a Jewish call for a more just society. Â
#Giving Tuesday
In this episode of The JCast Journey, host Darone Ruskay takes over all of the streams on JCast Network to ask you for support. Darone is very proud of the many successes that we have had on JCast Network, but doing this project requires financial support
The Dawning of the Age of Jacob
Rabbi Knopf's Saturday message for Parashat Toledot (November 22, 2014): Recent events in Israel are a reminder that we still very much live in a broken world. But Judaism believes another world is not only possible but inevitable, and we can help build i
Don’t Box Me In
Rabbi Knopf's Friday message for Parashat Toledot (November 21, 2014): What happens when we try to make others be who we want them to be, rather than who they are, and when others try to do the same to us. Â
The Spirituality of Welcoming
Rabbi Knopf's Saturday message for Parashat Va-Yera (November 8, 2014): In the hierarchy of Jewish values, welcoming guests is more important than personal spiritual breakthroughs, a fact that has profound implications for synagogue life. Â
The Book of Torah
Rabbi Knopf's Friday message for Parashat Va-Yera (November 7, 2014): The play, "The Book of Mormon" inspires Rabbi Knopf to wonder what a Jewish missionary might sound like. Â
The Ideal and the Real
Rabbi Knopf's Saturday message for Parashat Lekh Lekha (November 1, 2014): Rabbi Knopf discusses the difference between Abraham and Sarah, and how the good life (and a better world) requires a balance of each person's traits. Â