rabbi.dzstein
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Rabbi at Congregation B'nai Shalom in Walnut Creek, CA. Banjo picker & Yiddishist. Slow-paced doctoral student in Jewish Studies. He/Him/His
Walnut Creek, CA
Joined January 2010
In this week’s column, I reflect on a devastating fire in 18th-century Prague and a recent antisemitic attack on a synagogue in Jackson, Mississippi — and what both moments teach about resilience and shared responsibility across generations. Link below.
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I don’t have a horse in the menorah debate, but I do wonder how it ends up discrediting the Rambam’s intellect. If he were shown new evidence, he’d have changed his mind—on astronomy, on medicine, on metzizah. Treating him as infallible feels deeply perplexing.
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This week’s Torah portion seeks unity through pilgrimage and centralization. But unity without justice is fragile. How do you balance unity, security, and compassion? Read my column in the @jewishsf: https://t.co/QnhtXN1eqr
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Boy, Isaiah Berlin turns up in the strangest places…
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America organizations haven’t been standing with us but with Netanyahu and against the people of Israel. Stop enabling Bibi and the Kahanists.
OPINION | American Jews must continue to raise their voices, advocate for Israel’s security, demand that antisemitism be confronted wherever it festers, and must stand by our Israeli brothers and sisters. https://t.co/sQQDExxo9J
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I wrote a short tribute to Cantor Benzion Miller, who passed away earlier this week.
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Only Jewish day school grads of a certain generation get this…
You better run for your life/ back to Utah overnight
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Great reporting!
Trader Joe’s says its babkas come from a small kosher bakery in Brooklyn that grew out of a grandmother’s kitchen. So I wondered: which bakery? The answer is surprising. I did a deep dive for @jdforward 🧵1/5 https://t.co/3nvRRqGYOU
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In the memories of the Beautiful 6: Hersh, Ori, Carmel, Alex, Eden, Almog, we have to bring the remaining 101 hostages home. We have to, before it’s too late. #BringThemAllHomeNOW
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The time to do all of this is now. We all have a role to play in helping to reach a deal, as abhorrent as it sounds to make a deal with barbaric terrorists. We can all honor the memories of Hersh, Eden, Carmel, Almog, Alex and Ori, together with every other hostage killed by
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“But when I read your paper, there’s finally some good news…”
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One of the most dominant women in sports will win a Gold Medal today & I can only hope @NBC gives her a few minutes of Primetime coverage. Amit Elor is just 20yo but hasn’t lost a match since 2019! She is now 40-0 & has outscored her opponents 350-18!!! 🤯 @miketirico
The Olympic Kid! 🇺🇸 Amit Elor is into the Olympic FINALS after she techs her semifinal opponent Sol Gum Pak in under two minutes with a takedown to 4 laces. Incredible! 🇺🇸
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Um, my daughter is obsessed with a small alien from a 20-year-old film. I think they are doing just fine.
Until last weekend with the release of ‘Deadpool & Wolverine,’ Marvel had been on a creative and commercial cold streak. And Lucasfilm hasn’t released a new ‘Star Wars’ movie in five years. Where did Disney’s IP empire go wrong?
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After nearly a decade fighting for justice for the @PortChicago50, I commend the U.S. Navy for exonerating these heroes. Today our nation stands one step closer to fulfilling its founding promise of equality and justice for all (1/2).
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Posting w/o comment, but I do think that one of the most undercovered stories about the campus protests is the ways in which the @UAW is actively involved. I think this has major implications for Democratic party politics and should be covered more. See, for instance, below:
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In Greece, 87% of the country's Jewish population were murdered by the Nazis in the Holocaust, the highest percentage loss of any officially occupied country during World War II. This included both Ladino-speaking Sepharadim and Greek-speaking #Romaniote Jews.
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