THIS IS NOT NORMAL (PODCAST)
What are we to make of the fact that Urban Dictionary, a crowd-sourced website set up to define slang words and phrases, has become a hotbed of hate speech, racism, and sexism?
With offensive definitions of Auschwitz and anti-Zionism just two recent examples, Rabbi Dunner dwells on the fact that what is found on the fringes soon winds its way into the mainstream, a point presciently made by Moses in Re’eh, in his stark warning regarding false prophets and the dangers of idolatry for those about to embark on the conquest of the Promised Land.
THEY ARE CHAPTERS. WE ARE THE BOOK.
(For the SoundCloud audio, scroll down) The Tisha B’Av experience is utterly unique. You sit on the floor in the half-dark, your shoes off, your voice cracking through the dirge-like... Read More