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Neal Schindler

A native of Detroit, Neal Schindler has lived in the Pacific Northwest since 2002. He has held staff positions at Seattle Weekly and The Seattle Times and was a freelance writer for Jew-ish.com from 2007 to 2011. Schindler was raised in a Reconstructionist Jewish congregation and is now a member of Spokane's Reform congregation, Emanu-El. He is the director of Spokane Area Jewish Family Services. His interests include movies, Scrabble, and indie rock. He lives with his wife, son, and two cats in West Central Spokane.
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Ask A Jew: Pushing back against hateful stereotypes

I’m not always a fan of Jewish attorney and author Alan Dershowitz, but his refutation of the “Jews control the media” stereotype, which he wrote for HuffPost back in 2010, takes an approach I think is pretty effective.
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Ask A Jew: What is God’s Name?

In accordance with Reform Judaism’s penchant for cheekiness, Rabbi Paul Kipnes has written that “God is a four-letter word” according to Torah.
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Faith doesn’t have to mean intolerance

Such extremism compels me to offer a reminder: Faith does not have to be synonymous with intolerance.
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I don’t recognize my country

My mother, a retired Holocaust studies scholar, recently reminded her Facebook friends of something my grandmother used to say: “It could happen here.” By “it,” of course, she meant another Holocaust.
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Gary and Me

A little less than two years ago, I wrote an essay for FāVS in which I mentioned that I listen to conservative Christian talk radio. I do this not because I’m contemplating a conversion to Christianity, or because I’m preparing to renounce two decades of personal support for progressive causes.
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On forgiveness and forgetting

Forgiving is something else entirely. I can forgive my bullies in the sense that I understand, more than I ever did or could back then, what might have compelled them to be so cruel to me.
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Ask a Jew: How can God be refreshed when God is the all-powerful creator of all existence?

God didn’t rest because he had to, but rather exhaled in satisfaction.
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