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2024Israel: An Indigenous NationIsrael, Anti-Zionism, and AntisemitismEmunah and BitahonJudaism and CompetitionNotable Deaths/5784
2023No Heart Attack Day- Unetaneh Tokef and FateReflections on Psalms and PrayerGathering Community TogetherTime Management for MortalsNotable Deaths/5783
2022Hebrew as a Sustaining ForceThe Sweetness of a Name The Imprint of Your Soul Yizkor Means Goodbye Notable Deaths/5782
2021Center for Community TransformationExamining our Jewish Questions Emerging from the CaveShowing Up to RememberNotable Deaths/5781
2020You Can’t Go HomeGod is FluidBreak FreeAtonementNotable Deaths/5780
2019Learning from the College Admissions ScandalHineini: Being Fully PresentDeath PenaltyEmbodied Humans or Disembodied Angels?Notable Deaths/5779
2018Bury the Bird Properly!Separation or Reconciliation?Judaism: Race or Tribe?Falling Kor’imNotable Deaths/5778
2017AgingParasites Adding to the Fast Israel Notable Deaths/5777
2016Power of Making ConnectionsSacrificesThe Vidui Confession Ritual, Beating Your Chest KaddishNotable Deaths/5776
2015Refugee CrisisClarifying ThoughtsSacred Self-DelusionMapping Our LivesNotable Deaths/5775
2014Nourishing the Five SoulsIsrael – National SpiritualityFearErasing MemoriesNotable Deaths/5774
2013TeshuvahReligious ExperienceAchieving PeacefulnessTorah StudyNotable Deaths/5773
2012Healthy ForgivenessEthics – Absolute or Relatively RelativeWhat Social Media Cannot DoWinning and LosingNotable Deaths/5772
2011Blessing, Shalom, and Birkat KohanimLearning from HoneybeesStewardshipInterfaith UnderstandingNotable Deaths/5771
2010Lower Manhattan Islamic CenterConversion of N. American JewryMiners in the Belly of the FishA Theology of Mi SheberakhNotable Deaths/5770
2009Our Time or God’s Time?Health CareRudenessHopelessnessNotable Deaths/5769
2008HappinessLiving With IntegrityMembership and BelongingDying:  Gateway to LivingNotable Deaths/5768
2007CommunityIsraelMitzvahMiss the RosesNotable Deaths/5767
2006Sacred BoredomReligion and PoliticsCarrying BaggageEnsoulmentNotable Deaths/5766
2005Cultivating HumilitySibling RelationshipsReproachTortureNotable Deaths/5765
2004CompetitionAngerHomosexualityDiscovering Your PotentialNotable Deaths/5764
2003PrayerMr. Rogers and Harry PotterMarketing OurselvesFrom Age-ing to Sage-ing 
2002Freedom and HappinessCentrality of IsraelReligious PluralismYizkor and Traumatic Memory 
2001TerrorismIsraelStem CellsYizkor 
2000LeibermanJudaic ComfortGenomeModesty