About Rabbi Andy Bachman
Why Be Jewish: Engaging the Sacred Pt. 2
In the 12 years that I have been connected in some form or another to The Samuel Bronfman Foundation –first as the Executive Director of the Bronfman Center at NYU, then as founder of Brooklyn Jews and today as Rabbi … Read More
We Even Have A Nazi
So Park Slope has a little Nazi. A small, angry Nazi. I met him this evening. Returning from an unveiling at a Queens Cemetery, I was parking the car at 8th and Garfield. The little Teuton was crossing the street … Read More
Grow Up! It’s Shabbos!
This is a special Shabbat reserved for those of you with mommy and daddy issues. From Kedoshim (Leviticus 19), the Eternal says, “Every person should revere his mother and father and you should keep my Shabbat, I am the Eternal … Read More
Thank God for Tenth Grade
Sophomore year in high school, everything began to shift for me. It was the last hey-day of any illusions I had of being a basketball player, let’s just get that out there. I was the starting point guard on a … Read More
New Paths?
Ann Hulbert shares some insight from a recent Pew study on sexual and political principles of Gen Next that are worth a look in today’s Sunday Times Magazine. It captures, certainly from my own experience, the rooted openness of a … Read More
Bringing In Shabbat By the Grave
My father used to say to my sisters that I was the sensitive one. “Like a deer in the woods who hears a twig snap,” which I guess meant I had a kind of high strung alertness. I learned this … Read More
Bringing In Shabbat By the Grave
My father used to say to my sisters that I was the sensitive one. “Like a deer in the woods who hears a twig snap,” which I guess meant I had a kind of high strung alertness. I learned this … Read More
The Big Nose of God
In commenting upon the unique relationship that Moses had with God atop Mount Sinai, the rabbis noticed a interesting thing about the text in Exodus. When Israel originally approaches the mountain, it is described simply as that – a mountain. … Read More
Reform Judaism’s Iraq War Resolution: What Do You Think?
Members of my community are asking about the Iraq War and whether or not our congregation should be encouraging discussion on what is, arguably, the most important moral issue of our day. It turns out the Reform Movement, of which … Read More
Day 3: Is God Still Necessary?
From: Douglas Rushkoff To: Andy Bachman Subject: Are we ready to take the next step? Dear Andy, Fascism wasn’t godlessness at all—simply people worshipping a different god. Fascism isn’t monotheism, of course, but obedience to a natural order, and expressed … Read More
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