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Rabbi Benjamin Resnick

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Benjamin Resnick is the rabbi at the Solomon Schechter School of Metropolitan Chicago.

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Take it from this rabbi: You should binge-watch Netflix’s ‘Long Story Short’ for the High Holidays

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick September 18, 2025September 18, 2025

(JTA) — This past Saturday night, during Selichot services, I led members of our congregation in our first recitation of “Ashamnu,” the confessional acrostic that we accompany by striking our […]

An image released by NASA on July 12, 2022, shows the edge of a nearby, young, star-forming region in the Carina Nebula, captured in infrared light by NASA's James Webb Space Telescope. (Photo/JTA-NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI-Handout via Xinhua)
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The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick and JTA July 19, 2022
The ark doors at Congregation Agudas Achim in Austin, Texas, mimic an ancient depiction of the Hebrew calendar. (Photo/Rabbi Neil Blumofe)
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It could be easy to lose sense of time during the coronavirus pandemic. Jewish tradition has an antidote for that.

Rabbi Benjamin Resnick by Rabbi Benjamin Resnick March 25, 2020March 25, 2020

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