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Remembering the 1992 Los Angeles Riot -
May, 1992 Mel Gibson's The Passion - Information Packet
Same Sex Marriage NER-CCAR Passes Resolution in Support of Marriage
Ruling, Opposes Efforts to Undermine Equality for Same-Sex Couples.Press Release .
Composed
Thursday Night, July 14, 2005 after two weeks in Israel - Thoughts
from Rabbi Mark Shapiro An Elul Message: Sailing
into the New Year ; All Elul Messages for 2010
A Talk About Islamaphobia,
August 27, 2010 (QuickTime
or iTunes ) (Flash )
(Windows Media )
To pray is to get away, October, 2010 Put your toe in the water, August 2, 2011 Praying While Flat on Your Back
Pat Tillman:
Thoughts for Memorial Day 2011 There is a difference between a Shabbat candle
and a Yahrzeit candle A Kaddish Moment Light after the Darkness: Remarks by Rabbi Shapiro on Friday, November 4, 2011… AFTER the snow storm and before lighting the Shabbat Candles The Fifth Aliyah on Yom Kippur Morning;
Reflections from Rabbi Shapiro Veterans and Us: A reflection from Rabbi Shapiro High School Reflections Published in The Republican, February 22, 2012Motivated by joy, not by sorrow Published in The Jewish Ledger, March 16, 2012 Pro-Peace. Pro-Israel. Different Perspectives Published in The Jewish Ledger, April 6, 2012 Courage After Love , April 24, 2012 Airports Have Names Too Published in The Republican April 25, 2012I am a Jew Because Published in The Jewish Ledger June 2012Israel and Gaza: So That Our Children Won't Be Victims (both text and audio)Biking and Listening, November 26, 2012 Judaism Tells a Story, February 6, 2013 Searching for Truth at Big Y: Were We Slaves in Egypt? April 8, 2013 From Israel Back to Sinai Temple, April 2013 Burying Tamerian Ttsarnaev, May 10, 2013 'I Will Protect You' A Blessing We Take For Granted. Thoughts on Ferguson and Michael Brown, November 2014 Exodus: Gods and Kings - A Review, December 12, 2014 Eileh toldot B'nai mitzvah... These are the stories of Sinai Temple's B'nai Mitzvah. An essay published in Spring 2015.Not A Commercial… But Sort Of , Written October 2015.A Statement of Unity... Presented at the Islamic Center of Western Massachusetts on January 14, 2016Heroin, Helen Mirren, and Us, February 12, 2016 This is Israel: From Jerusalem to Tel Aviv, February 26, 2016 I Met an Israeli "dentist/rabbi", February 28, 2016 Israel - A Moment in the Sun?, March 11, 2016 Elie Wiesel - Messenger for Humanity, Springfield Republican, July 13, 2016 Denial Becomes an Important Movie, Springfield Republican, September 26, 2016 Aspiring to Shabbat:
A New Book For Shabbat
, Jewish Ledger, September, 2016 The Matchbox and Jewish Life, Jewish Ledger, November, 2016 Taking a Moment for a Poem, The Longmeadow News, December 22, 2016 Hidden Figures: From the Movies North to Canada, Springfield Republican, December, 2016 I Am An Immigrant: Rabbi's speech given at a Community Demonstration
Against President Trump's Order Limiting Immigration, Federal Courthouse in Springfield, February 3, 2017 Women Aren’t Hidden Anymore, The New York Jewish Week, March 6, 2017 The Fragile Flame of Love, a sermon delivered at Christ Church Cathedral, Springfield, March 19, 2017 Not in God's Name –
Making Room for Differences in America, Springfield Republican, March 21, 2017 Remembering a Great Man –
Rabbi Gunther Plaut On His Fifth Yahrzeit, Jewish Ledger, March, 2017 Caring for Those Beyond Us - An Excerpt from Our Stories, The Jews of Western Massachusetts, Jewish Ledger, March, 2017 32 Years Later the Phone Rang -
April, 2017 Six Days of War - Fifty Years Later,
Springfield Republican, May, 2017
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