One of the outstanding sections of parsha Beshalach is the Shirat HaYam Suf, the song of joy and thanks to Hashem for having miraculously saved us from Pharaoh and his hordes of chariots and …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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1/24/18
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Tu B’Shevat is a wonderful, fun holiday that celebrates the birthday of the trees. It’s always meant that spring would be coming …
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By Joni Schockett
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1/24/18
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Wake up and smell the cholent! The blind loyalty of American Jews continues to give the Democrats freedom to maltreat the Jewish community without fear of losing Jewish votes.
A senior policy …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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1/24/18
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In his important book, “Anti-Judaism: The Western Tradition,” the scholar David Nirenberg makes the persuasive case that Islam has faced similar theological challenges to Christianity in …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/24/18
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Our columnist visited the Museum of Jewish Heritage exhibit, “Operation Finale: The Capture and Trial of Adolf Eichmann.” She regrets only making it there on its final day, with three …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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1/24/18
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In the age of Trump, the unusual has become the norm. But what happens when the usual is treated as the unusual? What happens when behaviors considered typical going back decades are distorted by …
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By Andrew Silow-Carroll
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1/24/18
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One of the saddest stories I ever heard was from a holocaust survivor who would say Kaddish on the tenth of Tevet every year, in the shul I grew up in as a boy. He was given the privilege of leading …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/24/18
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When describing the pillar of cloud and the pillar of fire that accompanied the Israelites out of Egypt, the Torah tells us that the cloud did not leave during the day and the fire did not leave at …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/24/18
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In 1925, the American Astronomer Edwin Hubble demonstrated (as an extension of Vesto Slipher’s discovery in 1918) that the universe was not static, it was expanding: every galaxy in the …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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1/19/18
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The Torah uses two phrases several times to indicate a longer-range prediction or association of fact. One phrase is “ad hayom hazeh,” literally translated to mean “until this …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/19/18
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