Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg - Life is a Sacred Text (Page 3)

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Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

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Women in the Wilderness

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How Judaism Brought Me Closer To My Father’s Memory as A Second Generation Queer Parent, by Elsa Sjunneson

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The Rock that Broke

...And the heart that broke with it.

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It's The War of Gog and Magog (And I Feel Fine)

What's a little apocalyptic military meltdown among friends

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The Red Heifer, Christian Zionism, and the Dangers Of Now

How a Holy Cow encapsulates an unholy zealot alliance

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The Land Down Under(world)

Some Jewish Perspectives on the Afterlife

Untangling Korach

Untangling Korach

Sometimes the only way to get clarity is by trying to peel back the layers to see how close we might get to the beginning.

Lenny Bruce, 1961.

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Everyday People(hood)

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On Investigating Judaism

Advice and resources for getting to know Judaism better

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Cool Things Post!

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"Are Jews Indigenous?" A Quechua Jew Weighs In

Guest Post from Daniel Delgado

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Counting On It

every ritual exists on a myriad of levels at once

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Spy vs. Spy

Or: How Stories Tell (on) Us

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Whither the Plagues

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Seder Sources and Resources

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Rabbi x Mailbag Time Again

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The Antisemitism Post (tm)

Gotta get the history to know where the tropes live in the discourse today.

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time away

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Whose Truth

Sometimes women with voices are shut out of the camp. But that’s not the end of the story.

Total Eclipse of the 🌞

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Total Eclipse of the 🌞

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16 Takes On the "Kushite Wife" Verse That Have Nothing To Do With White Supremacy

they had other things going on in the ancient world, you know

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Ask the Rabbi and Each Other!! + POLL!

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beyond nostalgia

really, the cucumbers weren't great in Egypt

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Facing the Ending of Esther

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