Comments for Ma Hamatzav? (Was' Up?) http://mahamatzav.org Ramblings and Readings of Rabbi Aaron Spiegel Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:16:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ Comment on Religion is Ridiculous? by rebaaron http://mahamatzav.org/2008/10/23/religion-is-ridiculous/#comment-456 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 17:16:15 +0000 http://mahamatzav.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-456 Touche! Though how is it that critics blame religion rather than its adherents?

]]> Comment on Religion is Ridiculous? by Lamont Cranston http://mahamatzav.org/2008/10/23/religion-is-ridiculous/#comment-455 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 16:41:39 +0000 http://mahamatzav.wordpress.com/?p=123#comment-455 “actively religious people report high levels of happiness, with forty-three percent of those attending religious services weekly or more saying they are “very happy””

And the Downs syndrome kid in the neghiborhood is even happier.
Which does suggest a trend here…

]]> Comment on Deploring vandalism, local Muslims tell Jews: “What happens to you happens to us” by Muslims and Jews Come together to Deplore Vandalism at Synagogue | The Islamic Workplace http://mahamatzav.org/2010/12/03/deploring-vandalism-local-muslims-tell-jews-what-happens-to-you-happens-to-us/#comment-436 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 18:26:36 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=403#comment-436 [...] “We need to be more proactive and work together as people of faith to educate people,” he said. “These acts of hatred come from ignorance.” [more] [...]

]]> Comment on Facebook, Twitter or both? http://bit.ly by Allyson & Scott Weinholzer http://mahamatzav.org/2010/11/16/facebook-twitter-or-both-httpbit-ly/#comment-332 Sun, 28 Nov 2010 18:58:33 +0000 https://mahamatzav.org/2010/11/16/facebook-twitter-or-both-httpbit-ly/#comment-332 Hello Rabbi!!!! I have been wanting to find you for so very long. Remember us? You married Scott and I at Harpoon Louie’s in Jupiter, Florida. 15 years, two children, and still going strong! Please respond. We would love to be in touch with you!

]]> Comment on After Psalm 137 by chosenrebel http://mahamatzav.org/2009/12/07/after-psalm-137/#comment-329 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 19:13:06 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=341#comment-329 It is a brilliant poem with haunting word choice.

]]> Comment on Top rabbis by poemsandspeeches http://mahamatzav.org/2008/04/17/top-rabbis/#comment-326 Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:57:44 +0000 http://mahamatzav.wordpress.com/?p=83#comment-326 My fa vorite Rabbi of all time, was Ronald Gittlesohn from Boston, Mass. He was wonderful in many ways, his sermons got a bit tiresome but he was well respected in the Boston community.

I miss him, he has passed.

]]> Comment on Habits of anti-Judaism by rebaaron http://mahamatzav.org/2010/06/17/habits-of-anti-judaism/#comment-306 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 12:41:38 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=388#comment-306 A very good queston! I can tell you that in several communities including my own, we’re working hard to communicate to our concerns and feelings to our Presbyterian friends. I have to say that so far I’ve been pleasantly surprised by their openness to listen. I don’t know that it will change their voting but one can hope!

]]> Comment on Habits of anti-Judaism by Irvin A. Mermelstein http://mahamatzav.org/2010/06/17/habits-of-anti-judaism/#comment-305 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 02:46:56 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=388#comment-305 The question is, what are we going to do about this other than post interesting commentary?

]]> Comment on After Psalm 137 by Johio http://mahamatzav.org/2009/12/07/after-psalm-137/#comment-304 Wed, 19 May 2010 22:02:03 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=341#comment-304 How poignant yet brutally true of us in modern America today; both Jew and Gentile. Not only have we forgotten how to weep, but if we remembered we would not have time.
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]]> Comment on After Psalm 137 by H4ck3r http://mahamatzav.org/2009/12/07/after-psalm-137/#comment-303 Tue, 11 May 2010 14:53:39 +0000 http://mahamatzav.org/?p=341#comment-303 How poignant yet brutally true of us in modern America today; both Jew and Gentile. Not only have we forgotten how to weep, but if we remembered we would not have time.
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