There’s an old adage of disputed authorship that has traveled down the centuries: In times of war, truth is the first casualty. As the English writer Samuel Johnson explained it in the 18th …
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By Ben Cohen
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4/28/21
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In recent years we have often felt plagued by reports of Israeli and Jewish leaders whose immoral actions had been exposed. A president guilty of sexual abuse. A prime minister indicted on …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks
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5/11/22
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The banishment of Yishmael and Hagar leaves a bad taste in one’s mouth. How could Sarah justify throwing them out of the house? How could G-d tell Avraham to do exactly as Sarah told him? …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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11/9/22
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Phyllis Glazer made aliyah from New York more than 40 years ago. Today she is one of Israel’s culinary stars as a journalist, television personality and spokesperson.
So when we were invited …
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By Ethel G. Hofman
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4/19/23
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In anticipation of Christopher Nolan’s new film “Oppenheimer,” about the man who led the American effort to build the atomic bomb, I have been reading the …
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Commentary by Benjamin Kerstein
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7/19/23
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Between the Flood and the call to Abraham, between the universal covenant with Noah and the particular covenant with one people, comes the strange, suggestive story of Babel:
The whole world …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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10/18/23
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Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
What about single dads?
To the Editor:
As a once-a-long-time-ago single parent, a then, and now, devoted father, I take umbrage at the failure of Rabbi and …
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9/5/08
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Opinion: From the other side of the bench
By David Seidemann
Issue of March 20, 2009 / 24 Adar 5769
The faithful come in four types, in my experience.
There are those who carry on …
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3/18/09
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Issue of July 3, 2009 / 11 Tammuz 5769
'Most thorough' award
To the Editor:
Before entering our family business, I spent 20 years as an Assistant Attorney General for the State of New …
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7/1/09
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The Torah commands us twice to rejoice on Sukkot. For Shavuot it only says to rejoice one time. For Pesach “joy” is not mentioned at all: it’s hard to rejoice when you’re thinking about the …
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9/30/09
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