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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 11, 2021
- 8 min
Amidst American Turmoil, What Can We Do To Help Turn the Tide
When I was a first year rabbinical student, I wrote the following in a journal: “My rabbinic mission is to make the simple complicated...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 11, 2021
- 5 min
The Loud Silence of Support
American Jews have long taken great pride in their history of advocacy in the fight against racial injustice. Abraham Joshua Herschel’s...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 11, 2021
- 3 min
Bringing Two to Ten
As human beings, we have grown accustomed to the cycle of time. We find ways to mark significance, to make meaning of the days that roll...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 11, 2021
- 3 min
Shake Off the Dust
When quarantine began, it seemed as though everyone was re-establishing New Years Resolutions. People wanted to use their newfound “free...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 11, 2021
- 4 min
The Values of Debate
The following is a sermon delivered at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio in 2019. Jewish history, as we know it today, was created by...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Sep 9, 2021
- 3 min
This Left Doesn't Feel Right
The following sermon was given at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio on Friday, August 30th. There is a reason that we read the Torah today...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 29, 2021
- 3 min
Editorial: A Drop in the Wrong Bucket
The following was an editorial written as part of a “Rabbi as Communicator” course in the Spring of 2019. It’s raining and it’s cold....
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 25, 2021
- 3 min
The Shabbat That Heals
There is a saying in Judaism that we are never more than 3 days away from Shabbat. Either Shabbat is just a few days away, or was just a...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 25, 2021
- 5 min
Mussar in a World of Climate Change
The following is a Sermon/paper, written for a Mussar course at Hebrew Union College, Oct. 2018. For a long time, the global community...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 25, 2021
- 5 min
Kol Nidre 2018: Our Sin of Apathy
The following is a sermon delivered on Kol Nidre September 18th, 2018 at Temple B’nai Israel in Parkersburg, West Virginia. I’ve never...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 25, 2021
- 4 min
Erev Rosh Hashanah 2018: Finding God in Baseball
The following is the sermon delivered by Austin at Temple B’Nai Israel in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Erev Rosh Hashanah was his first...
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 17, 2021
- 6 min
God is Here, Where Am I?
Yom Kippur Sermon delivered at student pulpit in Sandusky, Ohio.
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 17, 2021
- 3 min
Netflix Through a Jewish Lens
Geared toward high school students, this syllabus attempted to bring Jewish conversations into the world of television watching.
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rabbiaustinzoot
- Jul 17, 2021
- 6 min
Rosh Hashanah 2020 - Taking Our Faith Back
Rosh Hashanah sermon delivered in 2020 at Valley Temple in Wyoming, Ohio
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