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Shabbat Information

Candle lighting is at 7:34 pm on Friday, August 22.

This week's Torah portion is Parashat Eikev.

Havdalah starts 60 minutes after sundown, at 8:50 pm on Saturday, August 23.

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Rabbi's Corner

Essays by B'nai Israel's Rabbi Alan Yuter

Avot 2:4 Where Judaism and Christianity Say the Same Message (posted 12/11/06)
Avot 5:2 (posted 12/11/06)
Avot 3:1: Judaism and Civil Government (posted 9/26/06)
Avot 1:4 (posted 9/26/06)
Avot 3:8: Torah and the World (posted 8/2/06)
Avot 6:6: Torah Opinion and Torah Theology (posted 8/2/06; modified 12/11/06)
Introduction to Avot 1: Lists do not Make Us Listless – Chronologies are Critical (posted 7/10/06; modified 9/26/06)
Avot 6:1: On becoming Godly (posted 7/3/06)
Avot 1:2: How to Preserve a World (posted 7/3/06)
Avot 3:4: How Not to Live Life (posted 7/3/06)
Avot 1:3: The Religious Temper (posted 7/3/06)
Avot 5:1: Order has a Moral Quality (posted 7/3/06)
Avot 4:2: The Religious Disposition (posted 5/10/06)
Avot 3:2 (posted 5/10/06)
Avot II: The Religion of Balance (posted 4/28/06)
Avot I: The Meaning of Tradition (posted 4/28/06)

Geese, Ganders, and the Goblins of Pluralism (posted 1/8/07)
Shedding light on Hannukah (posted 1/8/07)
The Sin of Intuition and the Blame Game in Contemporary Jewry (posted 1/8/07)
Why Is Our Hero Judah and not Joseph? (posted 1/8/07)
One Voice Regarding the Homosexual Issue and Conservative Judaism (posted 1/8/07)
The Two Kinds of Judaism of Jewish History and Theology (posted 1/8/07)
What is Hannukah? (posted 1/8/07)
The Image of Women in Ancient Israelite Thought (posted 1/8/07)
Why do we Study Torah: Impressions of a Conversation with HaRav Professor David Weiss Halivni (posted 12/11/06)
Who is a Fitting Model for Modern Orthodoxy? (posted 12/11/06)
Two Understandings of Torah Judaism: Nahmanides vs. Maimonides (Nitsavim 5766) (posted 12/11/06)
The Jews of History (posted 12/11/06)
Renewals: Yom Kippur 5767 (posted 12/11/06)
Sukkot: The Festival of our Imagination (posted 12/11/06)
Pagan and Jewish Heroes: Defining the Human Ideal (posted 12/11/06)
How Does the Jew Know About God? (posted 12/11/06)
How Can We Identify the Authentic Religious Person? (posted 12/11/06)
True Jewish Comfort (posted 9/26/06)
The Orthodox Jew in the Israeli Army (posted 9/26/06)
Deuteronomy and Authentic Religious Society (posted 9/26/06)
Torah and Fervency (posted 8/2/06)
Pinehas: We have to go to war in order to keep the peace (posted 8/2/06; modified 9/26/06)
Israel and Jihadist Challenge (posted 8/2/06)
Islam's Threat to the West (posted 8/2/06; modified 9/26/06)
Balaam, Bluster, and Bullies (posted 8/2/06)
The Authentic Torah Conscience (posted 7/3/06)
The Art of Being a Modern Orthodox Intellectual: A review essay of Lippman Boddoff's The Binding of Isaac, Religious Murders, and Kabbalah: Seeds of Jewish Extremism and Alienation? (posted 7/3/06; modified 7/10/06)
The Challenges of Korah: The Case for Civility in Contemporary Jewish Discourse (posted 7/3/06; modified 7/10/06)
Arthur Hertzberg: An Appreciation for a Rabbi, Teacher, and Friend (posted 5/1/06)
How to Keep Your Kids at Your Seder (posted 4/28/06; modified 7/3/06)
Why Israel Needs a Constitution (posted 4/9/06; modified 5/10/06)
The Symbolism of the Tabernacle (posted 4/9/06; modified 7/3/06)
The Meaning of Leviticus for Jewish Moderns (posted 4/9/06; modified 4/28/06)
This is My God and I will Praise Him (Ex 15:3) (posted 3/13/06)
Why Hamas Won the Palestinian Election (posted 3/13/06; modified 4/28/06)
Who and What is a Jewishly Jewish Hero? (posted 2/19/06; modified 4/28/06)
A Time to Talk and a Time to Balk — The Limits of Jewish Dialogue (posted 2/10/06; modified 3/13/06)
The Wig and Orthodox Judaism: A review essay of Lynne Schreiber's Hide and Seek: Jewish Women and Hair Covering (posted 2/10/06; modified 2/21/06)
The Movie Munich (posted 2/10/06)