Opinion: This Halloween, wear a mask — but don’t hide behind it.
“On Nov. 1, may we learn to do a better job of taking off our masks, the facades that sometimes blind us from being who we really are and becoming the blessings we were meant to be.”
Micah Greenstein
There are 31 articles by Micah Greenstein :
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October 2025
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Guest Columnists
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September 2025
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Every year is a new beginning when you open your heart
Every day is a new beginning, and every year is a fresh start. That’s the larger message of the Jewish high holy days, which started this past week with Rosh Hashanah, the Jewish New Year, and continue for 10 days through Yom Kippur.
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August 2025
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Upholding Memphis’ reputation as a generous city
“My philanthropic heroes, whether congregants on fixed incomes or billionaires like Warren Buffett, embody a rare attribute. Sacrificial giving means contributing beyond one’s self, not merely after one’s self-pursuits or leisure.”
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July 2025
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Opinion Opinion: Bridging generations for community betterment
“What Memphis truly needs are those who love this city, whether native or newcomer, seeing it not just as it is but as it could be.”
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June 2025
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Guest Columnists Opinion: Trump’s defunding of universities is an attack on knowledge itself
“It is hard to understand how defunding scientific research and the arts, and preventing the enrollment of international students, aligns with the administration’s stated goal of combating antisemitism.”
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May 2025
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: Memorial Day is more than a vacation day
“All Americans owe the families of the servicemen and women who died serving our country more than lip service in gratitude, appreciation and reverence.”
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April 2025
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Opinion Greenstein: Celebrating Passover while immigrants go to bed in fear
“Freedom is hollow and meaningless until and unless we accept responsibility individually and communally for assuring freedom for all.”
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March 2025
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: We must accept each other’s existence and work together for the greater good
There are more than 53 Muslim countries in the world, and more than 60 majority-Christian countries. There is only one Jewish country, so why would good people of all faiths not recognize the right of the only Jewish state to simply exist?
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February 2025
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: ‘Religion for adults means embracing complexity’
“Science is essential to understanding how things work, but science will never explain why things matter to the human heart.”
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Guest ColumnistsThis Passover, a global pandemic puts the 10 plagues in perspective
Confined to our homes and apartments, Jews across Memphis, America and the world will impart the same timeless lessons of Passover via Zoom and digital touchpoints instead of large in-person seder gatherings.
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Opinion Opinion: Micah Greenstein’s letter from Israel
The senior rabbi of the largest synagogue in Tennessee on how “religious and nationalist zealots of all faiths can wreck any country, as we all know – and Israel is on the brink of disenfranchising the majority of the Jewish people in the Diaspora.”
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: Hanukkah’s message is one of hope
“Moving from the original Hebrew, there are actually eight different ways to spell the name of this week’s Jewish holiday in English — all of them correct. No matter how you letter it, Hanukkah contains a beautiful and powerful message.”
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January 2025
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: ‘Children are truly our greatest spiritual teachers’
“We sometimes forget how the unique perspective of children, particularly babies and toddlers, can foster our own faith.”
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December 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: L’chayim — to life!
“I have often marveled how ‘L’chayim’ and Jewish prayers in general were written when my ancestors were persecuted. ... They still contended that life has infinite meaning and light can and must pierce the darkness. ”
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November 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: Even in the darkest of times, we have reason to give thanks
The history of Thanksgiving can help us appreciate the miracle of being alive in this time and place, and the timeless gift of gratitude can ground us through any storm.
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October 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: ‘Being in the moment’
“Most of us emphasize learning from the past or planning for the future. Unfortunately, this often leads to living in the past and agonizing about the future.”
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September 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: It’s about time
“Life imposes enough stress on human beings without doing anything, so why add to life’s inevitable sorrows by worrying?”
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August 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: Xenophobic slander has become normalized
“There is not enough room in one country to house (all) the ... human beings living on this planet. However, there are humane and inhumane ways to find solutions and address the most vulnerable members of society.”
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July 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: In my faith tradition, sex and love are not taboo
“The purpose of Judaism, and all sacred faith traditions, is not to teach people to repress their appetites as evil but to train people to control their appetites because they are God-given.”
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June 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: Family reunions are ‘spiritual reminders’
“I view summer family reunions as spiritual reminders for what sets people apart from other species. As cute as dogs are, you don’t see animals in the wild reuniting across generations. Only human beings do that.”
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May 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: ‘We can all change the world’
“Too often we underestimate our own ability to make a difference in another human life, and we fail to appreciate that singular ability in others as well.”
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April 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: ‘Freedom from slavery is the essence’ of Passover
“The liberation of the Jewish people from Egyptian bondage has become a powerful symbol of redemption not only for the Jewish people, but for the entire world.”
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March 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: ‘Religion without humor isn’t healthy’
“The observance of today’s Jewish holiday lends tremendous insight into the Jewish mind, namely the ability to accept life with a sense of humor is a key ingredient to healthy living.”
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February 2024
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Opinion Greenstein: Thinking of freedom of religion
What would Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson have to say about the current state of religion and state in America? They would remind us that we are not a Christian nation.
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January 2024
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Guest Columnists Greenstein: ‘Celebrating new growth in the icy winter’
“As the Talmud teaches, ‘Because my parents planted trees for me, likewise I am planting trees for those who come after me.’ For the sake of our children, city and world, let’s keep planting.”
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