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Really Meaning Never Again - Yom HaShoah Sermon 5777

By Rabbi Danny Tuesday, April 25, 2017 52 Comments Edit

Two friends are sitting in a pub late one evening and the championship basketball game comes on the television. They watch as the team ...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Shelach - Helping us Remember

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, June 23, 2016 2 Comments Edit

As I get older I find that my memory has got progressively worse and I forget a lot of things. Today I live my life according to a “...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Yitro - Dividing the Ten Commandments

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, January 28, 2016 Add Comment Edit

When we think about the Ten Commandments we assume them to be a set list of Ten Commandments that God spoke to the Israelites at Mount Sin...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Bo - Sharing our Story

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, January 14, 2016 Add Comment Edit

One of the things I often think about is how we maintain, keep, and preserve the stories of previous generations. I know that my grandpare...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Behalotecha - Include don't Exclude

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, June 04, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Often, with the time of Pesach in America, the Seder night comes close to tax season which, for a lot of accountants, is their busiest and ...

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TCS Question - Why do we sit shiva?

By Rabbi Danny Friday, January 02, 2015 Add Comment Edit

Judaism has long understood the psychology of grief and mourning. Since the time of the Talmud there has been a structured and defined proc...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Ekev - Remembering where we've come from

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, August 14, 2014 Add Comment Edit

On one of my first trips to New York City I participated in a tour of the Lower East Side. It was quite amazing to see where the Jewish co...

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Two Minutes of Torah: Devarim - Moses' Memory

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, July 31, 2014 Add Comment Edit

A few weeks ago I was having a conversation with a friend where we were reminiscing about some events from our past. While we, broadly spe...

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CCAR Mission to Israel - My Saba's neighborhood...

By Rabbi Danny Thursday, December 06, 2012 Add Comment Edit

Yesterday began in the north of Israel, with a visit to the mystical city of Tsfat. Walking around the city we were truly walking in the foo...

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How can we remember Shabbat Zachor?

By Rabbi Danny Monday, April 09, 2012 2 Comments Edit

How can we remember Shabbat Zachor? I have always been intrigued by the commandment ‘you shall blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under...

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Rabbi Danny is a Rabbi at The Community Synagogue in Port Washington, he has a weekly Podcast “2 Minutes of Torah”, and he has been blogging regularly since 2010. He was a member of the inaugural cohort of the UJA Federation of New York’s Rabbinic Fellowship for Visionary Leaders and he is a Rabbis Without Borders Fellow. Alongside this he is a husband to Micol, a father to Gabby, a Liverpool supporter, Fantasy Football fan, Englishman in New York, and a dedicated Doctor Who Nerd.