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The God Show Podcast With Pat McMahon - Ep. 282 Israel under attack. How could it happen?
Ask an Army Colonel. Ask a Rabbi. Ask a woman. They are all.
Celebrating Our Freedom
In the Gettysburg address, President Abraham Lincoln described the United States of America as “conceived in liberty.” The story of the...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
6 days ago3 min read
On Being An Unabashed Zionist Rabbi- Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
I grew up in a conservative Jewish home in Brooklyn, NY. Camp Ramah, USY, I even studied in the Teacher’s Institute at the Jewish...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
May 286 min read
Unetaneh Tokef and the Pope
Unetaneh Tokef and the Pope Rabbi Bonnie Koppell September 2013 What do you know about St. Francis of Assisi, and what does he...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Apr 233 min read
My Life in Quotes- #81-90
""Wherever the tree of knowledge stands is Paradise," says the oldest and the youngest serpents."- Friedrich Nietzsche Would love to...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Mar 176 min read
Be Happy, It's Adar- Be Happy Enough
shared from Greater Phoenix Jewish News- https://www.jewishaz.com/religiouslife/increasing-happiness/article_9a524224-f39f-11ef-af50-27b3...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Mar 113 min read
My Life in Quotes- #71-80
"I desired liberty; for liberty I gasped; for liberty I uttered a prayer; it seemed scattered on the wind then faintly blowing. I...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Mar 117 min read
My Life in Quotes- #61-70
"No time of life is so beautiful as the early days of love, when with every meeting, every glance, one fetches something new home to...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Feb 135 min read
Parshat Bo- The Exodus as a VUCA Experience
One of the things you have to love about the Army is the never-ending supply of acronyms. Many of them are familiar- AWOL- Absent...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Feb 24 min read
My Life in Quotes- #51-60
51. " The myth represents as outward that which occurred inwardly."- ibid., Soren Kierkegaard, The Concept of Dread I don’t recall the...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Jan 265 min read
My Life in Quotes- #41-50
"If one refuses, even, to sit down at the chessboard and make a move, one cannot, of course, be checkmated."- F.C. Copleston Truth. ...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Jan 206 min read
My Life in Quotes- #31-#40
31. "The great thing is not to be this or that but to be oneself."- Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Vol. II Entering the Kierkegaard...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Jan 16 min read
My Life in Quotes- #21-#30
"The trees are better than men, for the trees sigh and are silent- men whisper."- ibid., Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or Vol. It is very...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Dec 22, 20245 min read
Vayetze: God Was In This Place, God is IN This Place
God Was In This Place God is IN This Place Rabbi Bonnie Koppell As our parsha opens, Jacob is scared, and rightfully so. Jacob...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Dec 8, 20244 min read
Thanksgiving IS a Jewish Holiday
Thanksgiving IS a Jewish Holiday Rabbi Bonnie Koppell Thanksgiving is a quintessentially Jewish holiday. First of all, there is...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Dec 7, 20244 min read
My Life in Quotes- #11-#20
"Ah, Harry, we have to stumble through so much dirt and humbug before we reach home. And we have no one guide us. Our only guide is our...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Dec 7, 20246 min read
My Life in Quotes- #10
"All births mean separation from the All, the confinement within limitation, the separation from God, the pangs of being born ever anew. ...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Nov 30, 20242 min read
My Life in Quotes- #9
"One only understands the things that one tames.". . . "What is essential is invisible to the eye.". . . "You become responsible,...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Nov 30, 20242 min read
My Life in Quotes- #8
"Mankind? It is an abstraction. There are, always have been, and always will be men and only men."- Goethe Whatever our grand ideas...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Nov 25, 20242 min read
My Life in Quotes #7
"What is important in life is life and not a result of life."- Goethe Mindfulness. Living in the moment. Goethe reminds us to focus...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Nov 25, 20242 min read
My Life in Quotes- #6
My Life in Quotes- #6 "The great fault of us all is that we force logic on facts, whereas it is facts themselves that create logic."-...
Rabbi Bonnie Koppell
Nov 17, 20242 min read
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