This week’s column is focused on the teachings of Rav Shalom Noach Berezovsky zt’’l, the Slonimer Rebbe, in translation and interpretation by Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein in his …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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12/6/23
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Rabbi Aryeh Pinchas Strickoff, author of “Inside Chanukah: Fascinating and Intriguing Insights on Chanukah, Its Miracles, and its History” (Feldheim 2012) perhaps said it best in his …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/29/23
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A version of this column was published in 2008.
With the economic situation deteriorating each day, anything dealing with the history of past economic disasters is bound to peak our interest. …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/22/23
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For most Jews, a sukkah conjures a booth with canvas or wooden walls, and bamboo or some sort of foliage on top as schach . Sarah Sassoon, 42, had a very different experience. …
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By Orit Arfa, JNS
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9/27/23
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You shouldn’t judge Soviet Jewish homes by their book covers, yet their bookshelves often contained the only clues that they were Jewish homes.
The overwhelming majority …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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5/3/23
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Noa Tishby, 47, Israel’s inaugural special envoy for combating antisemitism and the delegitimization of Israel, is not known for holding punches. Her Feb. 21 talk at Duke University in Durham, …
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By David Swindle, JNS
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3/8/23
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In common with many people who spent their childhood in the 1970s, I loved Roald Dahl’s novels for children, especially “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.” Of course, as a …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/1/23
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One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs — casting the former as evil and the latter as …
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Melanie Phillips
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2/22/23
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One of history’s great literary revisionism discussions ensues when Moses and G-d converse after the Golden Calf fiasco. If G-d does not forgive the Israelites, “Erase me, now, from the …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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2/22/23
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When did Jews start reading the haftarah?
If you were asked that question, you might recall a link to the Chanukah story, to a decree by Antiochus that the Torah itself could not be read in …
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By Celia Weintrob
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1/11/23
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