Category: Bereishit

SORRY DENNIS, YOU’RE WRONG!

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote an article titled: “Being good is in our... Read More

OF TWO BEGINNINGS (PODCAST)

Must Jews believe that the universe is almost 6,000 years old, and reject the scientific... Read More

OF TWO BEGINNINGS

This week, an article in The Atlantic grabbed my eye. It described the enigmatic sacoglossa... Read More

A LESSON FROM SALMON STARTERS (PODCAST)

In the mid-1990s, an elderly grandfather randomly attended a pre-Bar Mitzvah celebration dinner food tasting... Read More

A LESSON FROM SALMON STARTERS

Long ago—far longer than I am willing to admit—when I was a young rabbi teaching... Read More

TRY AND TRY AGAIN (PODCAST)

Rabbi Dunner uses an obscure and regularly misattributed nineteenth-century poem to help illustrate a fascinating... Read More

TRY AND TRY AGAIN

The name Thomas Haig Palmer will mean nothing to you unless you are a keen... Read More

BEING A PRACTICAL DREAMER

This week I attended the benefactor screening of Never Stop Dreaming, a new movie about... Read More