When I was an elementary school student growing up in Israel, I was part of a strong, idealistic, nationalist Zionist community known as Merkaz Harav (referring to the first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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12/13/16
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On one of my first assignments abroad as a rookie journalist back in the early 1990s, I found myself in the Serbian capital, Belgrade, just as the violent disintegration of Yugoslavia was getting …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/13/16
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It was a small mutzav (fortified position) on the Qasmiyeh Bridge, deep in the IDF security zone in Lebanon and far from the border and Hezbollah, until the IDF, as part of a gradual withdrawal, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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12/13/16
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Parashat Vayishlach contains the rather perplexing pasuk: “And G-d went up from him [Jacob] in the place where He had spoken with him.” (Bereishit 35:13)* We immediately find that …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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12/13/16
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We are a people who are proud to honor the Bris Milah and willingly and unquestioningly circumcise our sons. We do this because of our commitment to our end of the Covenant, and our belief that as …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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12/13/16
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Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau in his commentary on Pirkei Avot (Artscroll-Mesorah, 2006) teaches us, from Rav Shimon, that “a wise person always looks to the future. He weighs the consequences of his …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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12/13/16
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As we all watched in horror as the fires spread across Israel, we were also grateful that no life was taken.
This story, in which people lost their homes, an artist’s life’s work of 40 …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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12/8/16
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After years of silence, the Obama administration has finally spoken out about an American citizen who was killed in Israel.
There’s just one catch. The focus of the …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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12/8/16
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Our parasha, Toldot, focuses on Rachel Emeinu and the intense psychological pain and suffering that resulted from her inability to bear children: “And Rachel saw that she had not borne [any …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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12/8/16
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It was one of the most dramatic moments so far in the five-year civil war that has torn Syria apart.
In August 2014, a man disguised with dark glasses and a hood, and known as …
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By Ben Cohen
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12/8/16
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