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Rabbi Fred's articles and essays can be found in a variety of books and periodicals; the most extensive collection is in Moment magazine's "Ask the Rabbis" section going back over a decade, with a number of them included in the collected volume, Can Robots Be Jewish? -- And Other Pressing Questions.

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Years of High Holy Day sermons served as starting-points for discussions, and resources for consultation, often with as much material in the (non-shared-in-shul) footnotes as in the delivered text itself.  A small selection of these follow, with more on the way.  

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CLIMATE:     Being Good Ancestors (2019)      

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SHMITA:  Judaism's remarkable teachings about an every-seventh-year rest for us and the land deserve to be revisited each time the sabbatical year comes around again, as it did most recently in ____

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                       Getting Ready -- Overview of Shmita (2013)

                       During Shmita -- Food, and Agriculture  (2014)

                       During Shmita -- Resilience, and Spirit (2014)

                       At Shmita's End -- Hakhel, Community (2015)

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MUSSAR:  Every teaching and sermon contains elements of this spiritual-and-ethical Jewish wisdom-and-practice; in recent years at Adat Shalom, a few key Holy Day sermons were about specific middot or attributes we're bidden to develop within ourselves.  

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                         Anavah - Humility

                         Kavod   - Honor

                         Other

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RACE:   Years before George Floyd's killing and a (too-short-lived) national conversation, back when "White Fragility" was a recent essay and not yet a book or a commonplace, this sermon lifted up the Justice-Equity-Diversity-Inclusion imperative:

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                          Racial Equity for Mostly (but not all) Fragile White Jews (2015)

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