Hillel, Shammai and American Politics >>
Date: 2012-10-26 | Id: rdw57

I believe the greatest danger facing the United States right now isn’t the economy, or health care, or our foreign policy. To me, the biggest threat to our wellbeing is the current idea that those who disagree with us are not just wrong, but un-American.

Giving Without Guilt >>
Date: 2012-11-29 | Id: rdw56

Many charitable organizations send letters in December, asking us to support their work. From Habitat for Humanity to Save the Whales, they hope the feelings of the season (and the thought of an end-of-the-year tax deduction) will spur us to be extra charitable now.

A Letter to the Marlboro Board of Education about Police in our Schools >>
Date: 2013-01-02 | Id: rdw55

As I drove around Marlboro today, I saw police cars at every one of our public schools – and television crews from every network as well. I tried to speak with our Superintendent of Schools, but his secretary apologized, saying he was giving interviews to the media all day.

From Rabbi Weber Feb-March 2013 >>
Date: 2013-01-25 | Id: rdw54

As we engage in our popular perennial Purim preparations, I share once again in the latest collection of Random Ramblings from a Roving Reform(ed) Rabbi.