One of the first acts of the Nazis after they came to power in Germany in 1933 …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/17/17
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A few weeks back, as I was reading an op-ed in the New York Times, my temperature began to rise. Here is the opening sentence:
“Having spent the last 15 years in an Israeli prison, I have …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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5/17/17
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Parshat Behar begins with the following two pasukim: “And the L-rd spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai, saying, ‘Speak to the children of Israel and you shall say to them: When you come to the …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/17/17
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In the Torah, there are a number of times when G-d uses the word v’natati (and I will place or give) to indicate what He will give to the Bnei Yisrael. Sometimes it is good, and in the cases in …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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5/17/17
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We’ll call him Gabi (not his real name), a most unlikely recruit. None of us had any idea how and why he had gotten into our unit — he was overweight, to put it mildly, and was always the …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/17/17
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This week’s essay is devoted to one short chapter in the life and rich legacy of Rabbi Shlomo Goren, when the fate of Jerusalem was determined as the Jewish state …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/14/17
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There was something of a motivational speaker about President Donald Trump as he welcomed Mahmoud Abbas, the gerontocrat at the helm of the Palestinian Authority for the last 12 years, to the White …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/11/17
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On Shabbos, the Progressive Party in Norway, the smaller of two parties within the ruling government coalition (with 29 of 169 parliament seats), announced …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/11/17
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An open road on a beautiful day, with your kids in the back seat, maybe even a picnic lunch; what could be more perfect?
I will always wonder what Tali Hatuel, eight months pregnant, with her four …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/11/17
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The beginning of our parasha, Emor, focuses on a variety of laws that pertain solely to the kohanim. From a purely juridical perspective, they have little to do with the majority of the Jewish …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/11/17
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