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- Are We Using Technology or is Technology Using Us? 16
- Astronomy 30
- Awe 33
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- Belief 59
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- Compassion 24
- Consciousness 6
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- Fear 23
- Free Will 5
- Genetics 26
- God's Creation and Our Creation 22
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- Holidays 51
- Hope 13
- How Science Influences Religious Language 18
- Learning 49
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- Religion and Science 120
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- Scientists in Synagogues 115
- Self 30
- Sinai and Synapses Fellowship 30
- Success 8
- Technology 48
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- Time 24
- Truth 27
- When Religion Heals, When Science Heals 18
- Why Do People Do Bad (and Good) Things? 28
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- 2015-2017 Sinai and Synapses Fellows 54
- 2016-2017 Scientists in Synagogues Selected Congregations 26
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- Arvin Gouw, PhD 7
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- Briana Pobiner, PhD 3
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- CJ Baldelomar 1
- Connor Wood, PhD 24
- Dan Rothstein 1
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