Court: A place and a system any healthy society needs, but no one really wants to visit.
Just like a judge: Someone you want as a friend, but not someone you want to meet at work all too often. A date in court is not something most people look forward to, and the feelings such a visit generates range from frustration and trepidation, all the way to outright fear and terror.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/27/14
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There are some crazy myths running through American politics today, things like the U.S. government was behind the twin towers attack on 9/11, Barack Obama was born in Kenya (or was it the planet …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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5/14/15
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Donald Trump and his people have been whining like three-year-olds ever since he was trounced by Ted Cruz in Colorado. But don’t believe the whines; Trump is carefully rousing his base, people …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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4/21/16
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The name name “Be’er Sheva” appears a total of nine times in Sefer Bereishit, and serves as the opening verse of our parasha, Vayatze: “And Jacob left Be’er Sheva and …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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11/22/17
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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 second verse of our parasha presents the commandment to offer a korban olah, a completely burnt offering, in the Mishkan and later the Beit Hamikdash: “Command (tzav) Aaron and his …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/20/19
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The weather is warmer, the days are longer, and it’s time to get out of the house. When the sun is shining until 7 pm and the winds are warm and beckoning, no one wants to be tied to a hot …
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By Joni Schockett
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5/10/19
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New Jersey Sen. Cory Booker seems to think that America has been supporting the creation of a Palestinian state pretty much since time immemorial. He made his latest comments in an interview with …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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5/15/19
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Somali-born congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.), who has made a number of anti-Semitic remarks, is currently embroiled in controversy over her marriage history. When claims against her of bigamy and …
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By Melanie Phillips
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7/3/19
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