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Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan lives and works in Berkeley, California. He can be reached at [email protected].

Irena Sendler, a Polish woman who smuggled 2,500 children out of the Warsaw Ghetto
Posted inColumns, Religion, Jewish Life, Torah

An ode to those who outwit tyrants

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan June 28, 2018
Lag Ba'omer is commonly celebrated with a big bonfire. (Photo/Flickr-Yoninah CC BY-SA 3.0)
Posted inColumns

Celebrating Lag Ba’Omer with the holy fools of Chelm

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 3, 2018May 3, 2018
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

4 questions to ask of our leaders before Passover

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 9, 2018March 8, 2018
"The Plague of Locusts" by James Tissot, ca. 1900
Posted inColumns

A national leader without empathy? The Torah knows all about that

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan January 19, 2018January 19, 2018
From "Jonathan and David" by Gustave Doré
Posted inColumns

It’s Esau vs. David in a special episode of ‘Family Feud’

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan November 16, 2017November 16, 2017
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns

It’s hard to look back in regret with a stiff neck

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan September 22, 2017September 20, 2017
levy hands food to two homeless men
Posted inColumns

Prophetic book bolsters the case for ‘housing-first’ solution to homelessness

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan July 28, 2017July 24, 2017
black and white engraving -- a woman kneels before Moses begging
Posted inColumns, Jewish Life, Torah

Into the wilderness: when plans go awry

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan May 25, 2017
Chelm is a town known in European Jewish folklore as a community of holy fools. (Illustration/F. Halperin's "Khakme Khelm," Warsaw, 1926)
Posted inColumns, Jewish Life, Torah

In an age of narcissism, the value of humility

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan March 30, 2017
In a 1902 painting, Moses addresses Pharaoh before his court
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A message for Moses and America — ‘Never give up’

Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan by Rabbi Peretz Wolf-Prusan January 27, 2017January 24, 2017

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