by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Dec 18, 2007 | Opinion
As I was leaving the Opryland Hotel at the end of my volunteer shift at the 76th annual general assembly of the United Jewish Communities, an elderly man walking with his wife stopped me to ask why there were so many people wearing kippot (yarmulkes). Pointing to my...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Dec 7, 2007 | Opinion
I am originally from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, home to Bunker Hill, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Emily Dickenson and Mary Baker Eddy. I am proud son of Massachusetts, so it shouldn’t be a surprise that I am anti-Christmas. No, I am not...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Dec 5, 2007 | Opinion
While it is common for countries and states to have their official birds and flowers, we Jews have our official attitude: chutzpah. Chutzpah is a Yiddish word meaning “extreme self confidence.” Whether it is the chutzpah of Abraham arguing with God to...
by Rabbi Rami Shapiro | Nov 26, 2007 | Opinion
Remember Georgia Gov. Sonny Perdue’s prayer vigil to let God know Georgians are conserving water and should be rewarded with rain? Well it worked–sort of. While the storm clouds that formed during the vigil faded away, rain did fall the day after the...
