Dover Emet: Speaking the Truth

Login with Facebook to see what your friends are reading Enable Social Reading i Rabbi Gil Steinlauf Senior Rabbi, Adas Israel Congregation GET UPDATES FROM RABBI GIL STEINLAUF   Like 6 Asteroids, Randomness and the Absolute Truth About God Posted: 02/13/2013 2:23 pm Follow Prayer and Meditation  ,  Judaism  ,  Religion and Science  ,  Asteroid 2012 DA14  ,  Jewish Wisdom  ,  Prayer And Meditation  ,  Belief In God  ,  God  ,  Thankfulness  ,  Religion News SHARE THIS STORY 8 5 1 Submit this story When asteroid 2012 DA14 makes its perilously close encounter and near miss with Earth, there will be plenty of people who will thank God. We all know that one hit from a big asteroid, and life on earth as we know it could be wiped out. But, as some may reason, God is not letting that ha...

1/30/2013 12:05:00 PM Slavery lives on in our attitudes by Rabbi Gil Steinlauf During the holiday break, I took my kids to the Smithsonian Museum of American History. We went to an exhibit about the emancipation from slavery in this country, its effects a century later and on to this day. We went past a glass case that contained tiny shackles, meant for the wrists of a child. It was crowded, but I couldn't but linger at that horrifying object. It's not unlike the huge pile of shoes in the Holocaust Museum - tangible objects that silently make unspeakable horror so very real and palpable. My God, I thought, how could this be possible? How could any human being sink to such cruelty and heartlessness? But here is proof, literally in front of me. The story of the Exodus from Egypt attests that there has been slavery, brutality and cruelty for as long as there has been human civilization. It's still a reality today around the world. Thank God, we think, we're past i...