Crunch time! You know, the time when you figured you would basically be done with 90% of your Pesach preparations, and in reality you’ve just hit the 25% mark. Really, why is it we think this year is going to be different from last year or the year before? I think we should get credit for thinking we could be finished at this point.
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By Judy Joszef
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3/21/13
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Last week’s deaths of seven Hamas terrorists in the collapse of a tunnel they were digging coincided with complaints by residents of an Israeli town near Gaza that underground digging has come …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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2/3/16
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When we encounter the parshas of Tazria and Metzora, our thoughts typically run to lashon hara (speech that brings people down), which is argued by the Talmud (Arakhin 15-16) to be the main impetus …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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4/13/16
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A decade after fighting the Second Lebanon War against the Islamist terror militia Hezbollah, Israel is again facing a buildup on its northern border, with the prospect of fresh hostilities …
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By Ben Cohen
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7/20/16
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Eli Wiesel describes one of the most painful moments he ever experienced as a push from behind.
Shouting, chaos, dogs barking and attacking, SS guards with guns shouting commands in German which …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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11/15/17
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America is aging. Ten-thousand Baby Boomers turn 65 every day and there are now 75 million people aged 65 and older living active and healthy lives.
There are many reasons that we are enjoying …
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By Joni Schockett
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3/7/18
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Rabbi Avi Shafran, public information director of Agudath Israel of America, writes a weekly column for Hamodia, which declined to publish this submission. He posted it at RabbiAviShafran.com and it …
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By Rabbi Avi Shafran
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7/5/18
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With Purim two weeks away, its spirit is already in the air. Costume planning, mishloach manot, hamantaschen baking and Purim banquet menus, all underway.
Of course, at the center of it all is the …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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3/13/19
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Our parasha contains the mitzvah of sippur yetziat Mitzrayim, the recounting of the story of the Departure from Egypt, that is fulfilled during the Pesach Seder. The 13th century author of the …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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1/29/20
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A petition demanding that accounting professor Gordon Klein be fired from his position at UCLA’s Anderson School of Business, where he has been teaching for nearly four decades, has …
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By Ruthie Blum
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6/17/20
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