Category Archives: David Suissa

Is Thinking For Yourself A Torah Value?

David Suissa writes about Shalhevet in this week’s Jewish Journal: "A coed Modern Orthodox high school that would empower individual students to think for themselves and grow morally in a Torah environment." Thinking for yourself sounds to me like a … Continue reading

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David Suissa On A Tragic Fall

David Suissa writes in this week’s Jewish Journal: Bianca Khalili died on Memorial Day when she fell off a balcony on the 15th floor of an apartment building in Century City. Bianca was 17 and was in her senior year … Continue reading

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I Go To The Shul Banquet

Preparation Video Post-Banquet Letdown For the past few weeks when people would ask me if I was going to the shul banquet, I gave a haughty and disdainful no. I was above that plebian fraternizing. It sounded really boring. I … Continue reading

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David Suissa: ‘I Heart Shuvuot’

I got a sneak peak at excerpts of David Suissa’s column in next week’s Jewish Journal: In most suburban congregations, other than the occasional blintz offering, no one really talks about Shavout, but last week I had lunch with an … Continue reading

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Standing In Unity At Sinai Temple

David Suissa writes in the Jewish Journal: The second event that has fueled my optimism happened at my friend Rabbi David Wolpe’s Sinai Temple. For those of you who were around about seven years ago, you might remember that a … Continue reading

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