Archives: Voices
One Minute Torah – Ki Tavo 2019
When Immigration Enforcement officers pick-up people for deportation, they move them quickly to a distant facility.
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One Minute Torah – Vaetchanan 5779
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. At the edge of MITs campus is a graduate-student apartment building called Eastgate. My husband David […]
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One Minute Torah – Yes! to Identity
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. When I arrived home yesterday, Janae, our children’s nanny, announced: “Yaara defended me at the park […]
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One Minute Torah – Korach and Democracy
I wish every voter in America would read How Democracies Die, by political scientists Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. I especially wish those with perspectives […]
ReadOne Minute Torah – B’chukotai 5779
This week’s One Minute Torah is from the archives. Our family lived in Jerusalem in 2010-11. I had the blissful experience of studying at the […]
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One Minute Torah – B’har 5779
At the end of this piece comes a tough request. To frame that request, I am revisiting a story I shared in a One Minute […]
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One Minute Torah – Metzora 5779
Two ICE offices approached Juan Francisco at the door to his home in Daly City. They were looking for someone who had previously lived at […]
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One Minute Torah – Tazria 5779
Two kids are sitting in my office, glaring at each other with righteous indignation. “She said…..” “He called me…..” “Hold it!” I tell them. […]
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One Minute Torah: Vayikra 5779
I had a remarkable conversation with Cherie Lawson, a staff member with the youth ministry at NBCC – the church that rents our building every Sunday.
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