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Basque Country – Following The Converso Escape Route

July 27, 2016by shalommorris 23 Comments

Basque Country is a unique and fascinating region. It preserves its own language – not like any other, though it straddles both sides of the French-Spanish border. Located just west […]

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Travels

Lekh Lekha – The Secret of Circumcision

October 21, 2015by shalommorris Leave a comment

The practice of newborn male circumcision is synonymous with Jews and Judaism. The Torah records that the commandment of this procedure was first directed at Abraham and his family. Since […]

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Torah

Temple Buffault – Paris

July 11, 2014by shalommorris 5 Comments

During my recent swing through Europe, and my visits to the Spanish and Portuguese congregations of Amsterdam and London, I also visited the Portuguese synagogue of Paris, Temple Buffalt. I […]

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Travels

Talmud Torah & The Esnoga – Amsterdam

June 15, 2014by shalommorris 5 Comments

To pray and teach at the Esnoga was extraordinary. The Esnoga and Portuguese Jewish community of Amsterdam are the things of lore. Ever since I began serving at Shearith Israel, […]

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Travels

Ets Haim Library – Amsterdam

June 13, 2014by shalommorris 2 Comments

It is a humbling experience to walk into the library of the Ets Haim yeshiba. Surrounded by sefarim, many from the 17th century, one can only imagine the Torah immersion […]

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Travels

Amsterdam

June 10, 2014by shalommorris 3 Comments

Amsterdam means something quite different to me than it does to most other visitors, I suppose. When I think of Amsterdam, I immediately think of Portuguese Jewry, and how in […]

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Travels

Passover and The Living Law of Moses

April 10, 2014by shalommorris 2 Comments

It is true that Christianity is inextricably tied to Judaism.  Not only is this so historically, but also theologically, as in the Christian self-conception as ‘New Israel.’ This adoption, or […]

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Torah

Purim and the Secret Esthers of Today

March 21, 2014by shalommorris 3 Comments

There is a custom on Purim to wear masks.  The origins of this practice likely lies in the Christian celebration of Carnival, and its calendrical proximity to Purim.  However, the […]

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Musings, Torah

Santa Fe, New Mexico

January 12, 2014by shalommorris 4 Comments

How I came to teach a class at Congregation Kol Beramah in Santa Fe, New Mexico is a story which kind of spans 400 years, but more personally, the past […]

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Travels

Shemot – The Fifth Column Canard?

December 19, 2013by shalommorris Leave a comment

Pharaoh is the first world leader to levy an accusation that scores of others have since made throughout Jewish history. Pharaoh declares that the Jews must be enslaved lest ‘when […]

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Torah

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