Month: November 2017

Photo by Shulamit Seidler-Feller

The Danger of a Single Story

Chimamanda Adichie, TED Talks
Video

Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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Photo by Shulamit Seidler-Feller

Sermon by Rabbi David Stern

Rabbi David Stern, Temple Emanu El Dallas
D'var Torah / Sermon

Rabbi David Stern shares emotional and eye-opening stories that he says shook him into a new recognition of the dissonance between Palestinians and Israelis after hearing the stories first-hand from Palestinians living in the West Bank.

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