Rabbi Noah Farkas
By Rabbi Noah Farkas
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Community To unite our country, we don’t need a politician – we need a theology.
In his inaugural speech, President Joe Biden called for unity. “We have never, ever, ever, ever failed in America when we’ve acted together,” he said But President Biden cannot unite America – at least not alone. To heal America, to unite our country, we don’t need a politician – we need a theology. There has…
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Food Dayenu, Is It Enough?
As we celebrate the Passover Seder, we sing, Dayenu, perhaps the most recognized of Passover songs. We sing “It would have been enough” to take us of Egypt, and “it would have been enough” to split the sea, and “it would have been enough” to give us the Torah and Shabbat. But as we sit…
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Food Turning the Tables: The Masquerade of Life
In the fall of 2008, we re-launched the food bank at my synagogue, Valley Beth Shalom. The economy had started to crash, and the synagogue responded, in part, by reinvesting in this project to help San Fernando Valley residents who needed a hand. Little did I know that within a few weeks, our little food…
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