Rabbi Naomi Levy is the author of Einstein and the Rabbi: Searching for the Soul (Flatiron). She is the founder and spiritual leader of Nashuva.
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News A Yom Kippur interview with NIH Director Dr. Francis Collins: ‘I count on God’
Just prior to Yom Kippur, Director of the National Institutes of Health Dr. Francis Collins sat for a Zoom interview with Rabbi Naomi Levy about God and the pandemic. Dr. Collins, a devout Christian, leads the United States’ search for treatments and a vaccine for COVID-19. Rabbi Levy is the founder and spiritual leader of…
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Community The Incredible Story Of Einstein And The Orthodox Rabbi Who Saved The Boys Of Buchenwald
73 years ago today on April 11, 1945, United States forces liberated Buchenwald concentration camp. Among the liberators was one man whose little-known story can teach our world how to respond to the hundreds of thousands of traumatized, stateless refugees today. I discovered this man by accident. Five years ago I stumbled upon a poignant…
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News Why Pray These Words? ‘O
On Rosh Hashanah is it written and on Yom Kippur it is sealed. Who will live and who will die…. Who by fire and who by water.” These words from the “Unetaneh Tokef” prayer lie at the heart of the Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur liturgy. The prayer tells us of a God who is…
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