The Haftarah Reading That Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’

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Click Here to Read: The Haftarah Reading That Inspired Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’: King’s speech draws on a part of Isaiah that Jews recite after Tisha B’Av—offering a model for revitalizing his mission By Charles Kopel on the Tablet Website on January 13, 2015.

People walk past a stone marking the spot where Martin Luther King Jr. made his 1963 speech on the steps on the Lincoln Memorial. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Click Here to Read: The Plot for America: Remembering Civil Rights Leader Joachim Prinz: The influential Newark rabbi was a confidante of Martin Luther King, but he’s been all but ignored by history By Allan Nadler on the Tablet Website on nFebruary 25, 2011,

Why the modern world is bad for your brain

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Click Here to Read: Why the modern world is bad for your brain: In an era of email, text messages, Facebook and Twitter, we’re all required to do several things at once. But this constant multitasking is taking its toll. Here neuroscientist Daniel J Levitin explains how our addiction to technology is making us less efficient by Daniel J Levitin on the Guardian Website on January 18, 2015.

Daniel J Levitan: ‘When trying to concentrate on a task, an unread email in your inbox can reduce your effective IQ by 10 points.’

Letter from Rabbin Tom Cohen of Paris

Dear Friends,

Please forgive me for this rather impersonal group letter, rather than a personal note to each one of you. Do know that given the time, I’d prefer otherwise!

That being said, it is truly amazing the tremendous number of phone calls, SMS, email messages, linkedin messages and facebook messages I have received since last Wednesday. How so very true is the Talmudic statement in Shevuot (39a) declaring, “Kol yisrael arevim zeh bazeh”, meaning ‘all of Israel are responsible for each other’. Continue reading Letter from Rabbin Tom Cohen of Paris