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Rabbi Zauzmer: The Intersection of Confidence and Humility (Rosh Hashanah, 2025)
Remembering Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on her fifth yahrzeit, Rabbi Zauzmer urges us to disagree better and to see the humanity in everyone.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: The Joy of Vulnerability (Sukkot, 2025)
Rabbi Zauzmer leads a discussion on why Sukkot is known as the holiday of joy, encouraging us to let our walls down.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Verse Zero: When God Starts Over (Shemini Atzeret, 2025)
On the two-year Hebrew anniversary of October 7, Rabbi Zauzmer invites us to consider the trauma that prompts us to create our world anew.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Heschel's Secret Mission to the Vatican (Yom Kippur, 2025)
With the rapid rise of a new kind of antisemitism, we are not the first generation of Jews who have navigated this challenge. Rabbi Zauzmer compares our time to Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's, imploring us to follow his example with three steps we can take in the fight against antisemitism.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: The Case for Bodily Autonomy (February 22, 2025)
Citing examples from the Torah, other Jewish texts, and today's world, Rabbi Zauzmer argues that we cannot lose sight of protecting reproductive rights, even as so many other issues dominate Jews' minds at this time.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Knowing Our Story (March 22, 2025)
With a fast-moving news cycle and TikTok-length attention spans, we don't always prioritize studying our history. Rabbi Zauzmer implores us to learn the stories of our past, teaching that we cannot fully understand the present without the context of the past.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: A Shabbat for the Land (May 24, 2025)
The Torah commands a sabbatical year for the land, called shmita, allowing the earth to rest like we do during Shabbat. Through various commentaries on this custom, Rabbi Zauzmer leads a discussion with the congregation on the importance of this ritual practiced once every seven years.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Take Every Opportunity (July 5, 2025)
Rabbi Zauzmer leads a discussion about Moses' great sin and encourages us to take every opportunity to highlight the joys of being Jewish.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Repeating Our Mistakes (August 2, 2025)
On the day before Tisha B'Av, Rabbi Zauzmer discusses repeating patterns — for the Israelites, for us today, and for our society — and how we can stop making the same mistakes over and over.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Hope After Hopelessness (September 27, 2025)
When our hopes do not pan out, we often look back and wonder, were we wrong to have hope in the first place? Rabbi Zauzmer explores this question and encourages us to muster up the strength to hope again.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: To Mask or Be Seen (January 4, 2025)
Rabbi Zauzmer leads a discussion about Joseph's vulnerability, questioning when we decide to filter ourselves and when we risk sharing it all.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: Embracing Memory (Passover Yizkor, 2025)
Sharing memories of her own grandfather, Rabbi Zauzmer reminds us that even on the happiest of occasions, we don't gloss over the sadness of loss.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: The Enemy Within (April 26, 2025)
Rabbi Zauzmer implores us to call out antisemitism not only from the other side of the political spectrum, but from within our own political home as well.
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Rabbi Zauzmer: No Matter the Outcome, You Must Vote (October 25, 2025)
As the early voting period begins, Rabbi Zauzmer reminds us of our Jewish obligation both to vote and to choose the best available candidate.