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1 month ago | 
thedispatch.com | Tal Fortgang |Michael Reneau |David Wolpe |Samuel J. Abrams
As weather across the United States warms, concern springs eternal that universities will once again draw national attention for all the wrong reasons. Last year, milder temperatures brought unsanctioned encampments full of students (and faculty) demonstrating against Israel. Administrators tolerating Zionist-free zones predictably invited lawsuits, which have progressed considerably in recent months.
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Oct 20, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |Daniel Darling |Samuel James |David Wolpe
Some say believers should sit out this election, and politics altogether, but doing so is worse for the country. By and Published October 20, 2024 Hi and happy Sunday. The intersection of religious faith and politics is always contentious, but it seems more pronounced in an election in which both major party candidates are so unpopular.
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Oct 7, 2024 | 
religionnews.com | David Wolpe
(RNS) — Often the prelude to a cataclysm is a single moment — a shot is fired at Fort Sumter or in Sarajevo. At other times the cataclysm itself unleashes waves of consequence, and it is impossible to know where they might lead. The Jewish world is living both in the moment of Oct. 7, 2023, and in everything that has transpired since then. We are whiplashed by the explosions of animosity, by the vitriol, by the internal divisions and by the unending grief.
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Oct 6, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Michael Reneau |David Wolpe |Jonah Goldberg |Jen Pollock Michel
Last week marked the beginning of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, the first of Judaism’s high holy days, with Yom Kippur coming this week. But Monday marks the anniversary of a tragedy: Hamas’ barbaric attack on Israel last October 7. We often take time to remember such tragedies years, decades, and even centuries after they occurred. In this week’s Dispatch Faith, Rabbi David Wolpe explains why remembering such tragedies is integral to the Jewish faith.
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Sep 25, 2024 | 
thetorah.com | David Wolpe
A rabbi once came upon a child who was crying. He asked the child what was wrong, and the child answered: “I was hiding, and no one came to look for me.” The Rabbi ruefully responded, “God makes the same complaint.” — A Chasidic parable[1]In Deuteronomy, YHWH warns the Israelites that while they experienced constant divine manifestation in the wilderness, with pillars of fire and cloud and manna from heaven, it will not always be this way.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
thedispatch.com | Kevin Williamson |Michael Reneau |David Wolpe |Rachael Larimore
Culture Nate Bargatze finds a niche audience: everybody. Published September 7, 2024 FARGO, North Dakota—They’ve got the woodchipper from the movie here. That’s one thing to know about Fargo. Very little of the eponymous Coen brothers film was shot here in Fargo, and so there aren’t a lot of filming locations to see or anything like that.
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Aug 11, 2024 | 
sapirjournal.org | David Wolpe
The most profound experience I have had of God occurred when I was a devout atheist. At 17, I took a cross-country Trailways bus to work at a Jewish summer camp in California. Although not hostile to Judaism itself, I had spent my teen years reading Bertrand Russell, the marvelously witty logician who wrote convincing diatribes against God. One day, we were riding through the Colorado Rockies, and I was struck by the certainty that those mountains showed the hand of an artist.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
wsj.com | David Wolpe
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
wsj.com | David Wolpe
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
jewishjournal.com | David Wolpe
The first day of the holiday of Sukkot was a week before the Oct. 7 attack. Each year the Divinity School at Harvard, to its credit, erects a Sukkah. Remarkably, the only ceremony marking the holiday was run by a group that called itself “Jews for Liberation.” As a Visiting Scholar I was new to campus and decided to attend my first Divinity School event. There was no lulav or etrog, traditional symbols of the holiday.
