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Making Visible That Which is Hidden: Parshat Va’era (Exodus 6:2-9:35)

January 18, 2020 Marita Anderson Essays

“Oh, liberty! Treasure your liberty!” said the man behind the double pane window. Speaking into the visitation phone he whispered, “All I wish is to magically turn into a bird so that I can fly away.” He looked up for a moment and closed his

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Standing on Ground Sanctified by Lynching Victims

June 15, 2018 Marita Anderson Essays

With my 9-year-old son, I recently visited the National Memorial for Peace and Justice in Montgomery, Ala. The Equal Justice Initiative erected this powerful memorial to honor the victims of racially driven hatred and terror by lynchings, and it is worthy of pilgrimage. We went

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Wild Geese and Unicorns in the Mountains

August 31, 2016 Marita Anderson Essays

Why would a Jewish chaplain and wife of a rabbi sign up to spend three days with her children at a Christian festival? That’s precisely the question I asked myself when I walked through the gates of a camping ground in the mountains of North

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