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Jews in the Modern World: Looking Back, Looking Forward
Parashat VaYeishev: The Way of Small Things
Parashat VaYishlach: Unmaking Assumptions
Parashat VaYeitzei: Praying as You Are
Parashat Toldot: Tough Love
Parashat Chayyei Sarah: Choosing Meaning
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Growing with Authenticity
Parashat Noach: A Life with Purpose
Parashat Bereishit: Inspired and Independent
Parashat V'Zot HaBerakhah: Choosing to Give
Holding and Being Held: A Theology of Sukkot and Shemini Atzeret
Parashat Ha’azinu: Tasting the Torah
Wall vs. Wall: Sukkot 5779
Are Our Sins Really Our Fault?
Vows That Divide
Yom Kippur: Purifying the Tabernacle and Ourselves (Yom Kippur 5778)
In Hiding or In Plain Sight: An Alternative Model of Repentance
On Forgiveness
Dive into the Machzor: Selichot (Penitential Prayers)
Maybe There Is Hope? (High Holidays 5779)
Parashat VaYelekh: Reveal Your Hiding
Who By Fire? The Most Controversial Prayer in Jewish Life
Isaac’s Binding, Rachel’s Tears: Sacrifice and the High Holidays
Parashat Nitzavim: Taking the First Step
Avinu Malkeinu, Rabbi Akiva's Prayer
Ki Anu Amekha (For We Are Your People): Metaphors of Us and God
Parashat Ki Tavo: The Unexamined Life
Embracing Teshuvah: A Faculty Panel
From Ethics of Sacrifice to Ethics of Care: Early modern Jewish women on Akeidat Yitzchak
Help, But Don’t Enable: Parashat Ki Teitzei
Purity and Integrity: When It Is Very Bad to be a Little Good (Summer Yom Iyyun 2018)
How Can We Really Change?
Parashat Shoftim: The Torah That You Carry
Beyond Toleration: Jews and the Fight for Religious Inclusion in America
When We Don’t Respect Our Leaders
It’s What We Do (And Don’t Do) That Matters
Parashat Re'eih: Nurture over Nature
Lying Rabbis: Between Policy and Integrity
Can We Really Re-Create Ourselves?
Parashat Eikev: The Bread of Affliction
Parashat Va'Etchanan: Conveying the Subtlety
The God of Judaism Is a God of Love (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 3)
Parashat Devarim: Conveying the Subtlety
Is "Love Your Enemies" A Jewish Idea? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 2)
Parashat Matot-Mas'ei: Earning Our Privilege
The Great Principle of the Torah is Love, but What Does that Mean? (Summer Lecture Series 2018 Part 1)
Parashat Pinchas: Sharing the Message
Parashat Balak: Going Your Own Way
Parashat Chukkat: Recognizing Miriam
What Feminist Torah Needs to Look Like
Parashat Korach: Truly Humble
Responsa Radio Episode 59: Can I bow down down during karate class?
Parashat BeHa’alotekha: Torah for the Average
Parashat Nasso: Forbidding the Permitted
Parashat BeMidbar: A Prince, Inside and Out
Where Do We Go From Here? (Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Responsa Radio Episode 58: Can I Prepare Non-Kosher Food for a Soup Kitchen?
Shavuot 5778 - Bread from the Earth and Torah from Heaven
Parashat BeHar-BeChukotai: With You
Can Halakhah Embrace Intermarriage?(Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Parashat Emor: Drinking Torah like Milk
Why is/was intermarriage forbidden?: Back to the Text (Spring Lecture Series 2018)
Parashat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim: Setting Ourselves up for Success
Responsa Radio Episode 57: What's the deal with tattoos?
Parashat Tazria-Metzora: Confronting the Consequences
Parashat Shemini: Generosity of Spirit
Parashat Tzav: Giving with Grace
If Slavery is Not Wrong, then Nothing is Wrong: The Torah and the Struggle Against Slavery Past, Present, and Future
Parashat VaYikra: The Blessing of the Ordinary
Purim 5778: God, Hidden and Revealed
From Divine Salvation to Ironic Survival: Purim and the Secular Subversion of Pesach
Postmodern Politics: Between Purim and Pesach
(Where) Is God in the Book of Esther?
Parashat Ki Tissa: Carrying and Carrying On
Parashat Tetzaveh: Remembering Moshe
Parashat Terumah: From Table to Grave
Parashat Yitro: I Am "Like" the Lord Your God
Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 2): Victim, Survivor, Advocate?
Rabbinic Voices on Sexual Assault (Session 1): The Power of Definition
What if Every Day Were Tu Bishvat?
Parashat Bo: Responding to the Wicked Son
Resurrection Revisited: A Closer Look at the Blessing of Giving Life to the Dead (Dr. Eddie Scharfman Memorial Lecture)
Parashat Va'Era: What is Smart is Not Always What is Right
Parashat Shemot: On Anxiety and Reassurance
Parashat VaYechi: Kind to be Cruel
Parashat Mikeitz: Storing Fortune for the Future
חנוכה תשע״ח: אזהרתם הבהירה של נרות החנוכה בדבר פרטיקולריזם ואוניברסיליזם
Parashat VaYeishev: On Being Present
What the Talmud Taught Me about Christmas: Hanukkah 5778
Parashat VaYishlach: To Be Angelic, Not Perfect
Parashat VaYeitzei: Once Upon an Eyelash
Where Do We Go From Here? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
When is Essence Unavoidable? (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat Chayyei Sarah: To Love Responsibly
When Gentiles are Like Jews (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat VaYera: Taking the Beloved Son
From Stranger to Convert: Turning a Biblical Outsider into a Rabbinic Insider (Fall Lecture Series 2017)
Parashat Lekh Lekha: Pray Like Someone is Listening
New Ways to Understand the Siddur: The Literary Method of Interpretation
In or Out? Biblical Definitions of the Ger (Fall Lecture Series 2017)