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Pre-Experience an Anti-Semitic Tragedy

16/10/2018 12:00:00 AM

Oct16

Chaim Strauchler

The spray painting of anti-Israel graffiti outside one of our local Jewish Day Schools (Leo Baeck) has called attention to anti-Semitism within our city. 

Insurance companies are incentivized to help their clients mitigate risk. They are on the line when tragedy happens. Insurance companies face a great challenge when encouraging people to protect against risk, DENIAL, i.e. the seemingly innate refusal of the human mind to...Read more...

Make More Shaarei Shomayim Jews

04/10/2018 12:00:00 AM

Oct4

Chaim Strauchler

I shared the follwoing remarks on Kol Nidre evening 5779:

A thousand years of Jewish history in Europe added certain words to the human vocabulary: forced conversion, inquisition, expulsion, ghetto, pogrom, Holocaust. Once hate goes unchecked, the road to tragedy is short.

One of the enduring facts of history is that most antisemites do not think of themselves as antisemites. We don’t hate Jews, they said in the Middle Ages,...Read more...

Wisdom of Not Knowing

28/09/2018 12:00:00 AM

Sep28

Chaim Strauchler

This Shabbat, we read the book of Kohelet. The book asks us to think deeply about life, while questioning the value of thinking itself.

Many insights can be drawn from this book. Interestingly, the pursuit of such knowledge has become popular, today. In a recent TED...Read more...

Spite & Joy

28/09/2018 12:00:00 AM

Sep28

Chaim Strauchler

aftselakhisI published an article in this month’s Commentary Magazine with my colleague Rabbi David Wolkenfeld.  It’s a response to author Michael Chabon’s provocative speech at...Read more...

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