Emor 5783 – Medical Assistance in Dying
Saving lives is the supreme Jewish value. We are told we can violate almost any commandment in order to save
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Emor 5778 – Should Conservative Rabbis Officiate at Intermarriages?
They shall not marry a woman defiled by harlotry, nor shall they marry one divorced from her husband. For they
Read MoreEmor 5774 – Don’t Use God’s Name as a Weapon
And the son of an Israelite woman, whose father was an Egyptian, went out among the people of Israel; and
Read MoreEmor 5771 — Measure for Measure
And if a man causes a blemish in his neighbor; as he has done, so shall it be done to
Read MoreEmor 5767 — Counting the Days
The other day I got an e-mail from my daughter Heather, who is away in college in California. She wrote “
Read MoreEmor 5766 — Intermarriage
This week’s parsha orders the Kohen, a priest, not to marry a divorced woman or a convert. The Conservative movement’s
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