All Posts by Robert Lichtman
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Miracles Believe in Me
December 6, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
On Hanukkah... we take a stance against the encroaching darkness as a Jewish community to initiate miracles for the Jewish People....
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3 Minutes That Changed 2,000 Years of Jewish History
November 29, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
75 years ago today, the UN General Assembly approved the "Partition Plan" supporting the establishment of a Jewish state...
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Really, Could Thanksgiving Be Any More Jew-ish?
November 17, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Here's the basic framework of a holiday. Try to guess who celebrates it....
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Unwrapping the Gift of Torah
May 31, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
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Our Power to Bring Good into the World
May 25, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Today we are rocked... but sadly not shocked... by the murder of 19 children and two adults in Texas....
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Another Holiday I Never Heard of?
May 19, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Lag Ba’Omeris a time when beautiful celebrations happen throughout the Jewish world....
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A Question for Passover
April 11, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Our Greater MetroWest community is privileged to be in history at a time when we are financially unfettered, locally and globally interconnected with ...
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The World Turned Upside Down
March 16, 2022
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Just as brave Jewish leadership overcame peril on Purim, today and once again it is bold Jewish action that is saving Jewish lives in Ukraine....
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When Creation and Destruction Meet
September 1, 2021
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
The Jewish calendar revolves around the moon. The lunar cycle determines our months, years, and holidays. One date that is determined by the sun......
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Juneteenth – One Month Later
July 15, 2020
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
I’m not gonna lie. I was ignorant about Juneteenth until last month....
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Mightily Blessed
February 4, 2020
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
There is a deep and wide and strong stream of rational thought flowing through centuries of Jewish discourse that eschews superstition, omens, amulets...
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There’s a Here- Here
December 19, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
For as long as our collective memory can recall, we have been playing dreidel, winning and losing according to the letters on the four-sided top with ...
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The Thanks-givers
November 26, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
We are thanks-givers. Our very name, Yehudim (Jews), refers to Jacob’s son, Judah, one of the few remaining tribes from which most of us are descended...
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Soothe the Sting, Savor the Sweet
September 25, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
The honey on our Rosh Hashanah tables that quickly gets messy from all of us dipping apples, challah, or what-have-you to symbolize our wishes for a ...
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This Choice Rests with Us
August 1, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
I just received a message from our friends at The Joseph Kushner Hebrew Academy/Rae Kushner Yeshiva High School that Cantor Shimon Vogel needs a...
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When Was the Last Time You Pulled an All-Nighter?
May 29, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
Saturday night June 8 is the first night of Shavuot, which commemorates our receiving the Torah. For hundreds of years this first night has been...
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Jewish Values
March 19, 2019
Robert Lichtman
Chief Jewish Learning Officer
It’s probably a bit unfair, but whenever I hear the expression “Jewish values,” my ears twitch a little. That’s because I think, for the most part, ...
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