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CBB Voices BlogPaul Zakrzewski2023-08-16T23:31:19-07:00

CBB Voices Blog

Barbara Greenleaf: ECO Team’s Visit to the Tajiguas ReSource Center

Marilyn Weixel: Coming Home

Monica Steiner: Abraham the Woman Would Have Stayed

Diane Blau: GHIS Connection

Holly Goldberg: Standing up for Judaism

Charles Perkins: Public Affirmation Speech 

Jason Prystowsky MD, MPH: Some Omicron reflections from the last week

Mariela Socolovsky: Reflections on a Cold and Rainy Winter Night

Becca Wrench: Mi Shebeirach List

Elizabeth Mason: Thanksgivikuh

Michael Wasserman: Visiting GHIS in Israel

Susan Levine: Creating Peace One Student at a Time

Rabbi Steve Cohen: Religious Experience and the Reality of the Unseen

Liam Avolio: Reflections From My Bar Mitzvah

Asha Wilkus-Stone: Mourning & The Shmita Year

Judy Karin: In the Fall We Build a Fort

Lynn Altschul: Bringing Suicide Out of the Darkness

Daniel Hochman: The Divine Spark

Lynn Altschul: Maintaining Good Mental Health as Covid Cases Surge Again

Beth Weinberg: Reflections on Yolanda Savage Narva

Rabbi Ira Youdovin: What Can be Expected from the New Israeli Government?

Cantor Mark Childs: Reflections on Reopening

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CBB Voices Blog is a space for community members to share perspectives and questions connecting Judaism and modern living.

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Welcome your writing: Please email paulz@cbbsb.org to submit original reflections of approximately 400 words. Thank you for being part of the conversation.

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CBB is committed to a diverse, inclusive community, and we welcome diversity of viewpoint -including minority viewpoints- in our blog posts. Of course, the ideas expressed by our authors are their own, and not necessarily those espoused by the synagogue. In the spirit of our Jewish tradition of constructive disagreement, “argument for the sake of Heaven,” we welcome you to contribute your own reflections in response to anything you read here (especially if you disagree!). Please contact paulz@cbbsb.org with questions or for more detailed submission guidelines. We look forward to hearing from you. 

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