Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller is director emeritus of UCLA Hillel and on the faculty of the Shalom Hartman Institute. He is active in Smol Emuni US.
Chaim Seidler-Feller
By Chaim Seidler-Feller
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This year, the traditional confessional prayer Jews recite is not enough.
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Community In 2020, we’ve been unable to breathe. But after the election, we finally took a breath.
Last Shabbat, when the news spread that Joe Biden had won, I breathed a sigh of relief. Along with my family and millions in the U.S. and the world over I felt that a massive burden had been lifted from our shoulders and that we could, therefore, breathe freely again. Then it struck me that…
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