Tag Archives: Shlomo Carlebach

willingly the ghetto: knowledge acquired in childhood

Eastside and Westside story. Two different worlds. Zionism in the form of Herzl was really the creation of white liberal social democratic thinking. A conjunction of the Enlightenment connected to a Jewish identity that could be refashioned in the age … Continue reading

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letting them go: the i’s and thou’s of separation

There is a story of the police commissioner under mayor David Dinkins in the early 1990′s , Lee Brown who visited the famous Chabad Rabbi in Crown Heights. In meeting the Lubavitcher Rebbe, Commissioner Lee Brown asked for a blessing; … Continue reading

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