Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips is the Executive Director of WAYS OF PEACE Community Resources.
Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips
By Rabbi Regina Sandler-Phillips
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Letters Not only is cremation controversial in Judaism, it pollutes the earth
Cremation may have a lower consumer cost, but it extracts a steep ecological price
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Opinion What Does It Mean To Be a ‘Jewish Funder’?
The corner bar on my street is taking a tithe. Its sidewalk chalkboard announces that 10% of all weekend income in December will be donated to the American Civil Liberties Union. The bar is on to something. Amid all the uncertainty of this new political era, one thing is certain: Whatever our social values may…
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Opinion The American Jewish Way of Death
In August 1963, “The American Way of Death” by Jessica Mitford sold out its first printing on its publication date and topped The New York Times best-seller list for weeks. Inspired by her husband, Robert Treuhaft, a radical Jewish labor lawyer who was an unnamed co-author of the book, Mitford brought a sparkling British wit…
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Opinion Confronting cremation
'This conversation is difficult because it involves facing death.'
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Opinion I’m a rabbi in Columbus. Here’s my answer to the neo-Nazis
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