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Vayeshev: Refusing Comfort, Keeping Hope
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
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By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
![Vayishlach: Physical Fear, Moral Distress](https://www.ou.org/life/files/GettyImages-491965428.jpg)
Vayishlach: Physical Fear, Moral Distress
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
Nov 19, 2018
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
![Respecting Our Parents = Respecting God?](https://www.ou.org/life/files/godlife23.jpg)
Respecting Our Parents = Respecting God?
How does one learn to be grateful to God for what one has? There’s one answer from the 13th century, but if you are a parent it should be a little...
Nov 14, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
![Vayetse: When the “I” is Silent](https://www.ou.org/life/files/Quiet-Kid.jpg)
Vayetse: When the “I” is Silent
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
Nov 14, 2018
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
![Toldot: The Courage of Persistence](https://www.ou.org/life/files/GettyImages-909048696.jpg)
Toldot: The Courage of Persistence
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
Nov 7, 2018
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
![Bored with Mitzvot? It Might Not Be a Bad Thing](https://www.ou.org/life/files/GettyImages-579120260.jpg)
Bored with Mitzvot? It Might Not Be a Bad...
For all our talk about passion and trying to do away with boredom, let us be honest and admit that at times it seems it’s unavoidable. As we have said before,...
Nov 6, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
Chayei Sarah: On Judaism and Islam
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
Nov 1, 2018
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
![How Do We Speak to Our Kids After Tragedy? First, We Listen](https://www.ou.org/life/files/silhouette-1082129_1920.jpg)
How Do We Speak to Our Kids After Tragedy?...
What am I going to tell the kids about this? As an educator, that’s the first thing that pops into my mind every time something tragic happens in the news or...
Oct 30, 2018
By Rabbi Dr. Jay Goldmintz
![Our World Has Changed](https://www.ou.org/life/files/GettyImages-491804266.jpg)
Our World Has Changed
Our world changed this past Shabbos. Permanently. And not for the better. We heard the news of the massacre in the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill section of...
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By Hylton I. Lightman, MD, DCH (SA), FAAP
![Vayeira: God and Strangers](https://www.ou.org/life/files/GettyImages-843678248.jpg)
Vayeira: God and Strangers
Covenant & Conversation: Family Edition is a new and exciting initiative from The Office of Rabbi Sacks for 5779. Written as an accompaniment to Rabbi Sacks’ weekly Covenant & Conversation essay, the Family Editionis aimed...
Oct 24, 2018
By Britain's Former Chief Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
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