With Rosh Hashanah behind us, we now look to the upcoming solemn observance of Yom Kippur and the joyous commemorations of Sukkos.
As with any Jewish observance, literature keyed to the themes …
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9/23/09
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Perhaps no other holiday season in the Jewish calendar is as prayer-intensive as Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur.
Each of these holidays has a unique prayer and liturgy to the themes and spiritual …
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9/16/09
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Perhaps one of the most nefarious myths of World War II was that Soviet leader Joseph Stalin was the one who liberated the Jews from the Nazi evil and ended the Holocaust.
I call this …
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9/9/09
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By Alan Jay Gerber
With the passing of Sen. Edward Kennedy the United States has lost one of its most colorful and controversial political figures of this generation. Yet as the nation both …
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9/2/09
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A cardiologist’s commentary collection
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 21, 2009 / 1 Elul 5769
This week’s review will focus on a very interesting anthology of rabbinic …
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8/18/09
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Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 14, 2009 / 24 Av 5769
Were I to survey readers and ask them to identify Benjamin Harrison, I’m certain many would not be able to offer a correct …
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8/12/09
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By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 7, 2009 / 17 Av 5769
Our review this week is of a book by an author named Gil Student. As unlikely a name as this may be, the material contained in his …
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8/5/09
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How to respond to grief with chesed and Torah learning
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 31, 2009 / 10 Av 5769
Two recent books deal with the untimely death of a close one, each in a …
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7/29/09
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Issue of July 24, 2009 / 3 Av 5769
By Alan Jay Gerber
The upcoming Fast of Tisha b’Av gives us an opportunity to re-learn and relive past tragedies of our people in a depth of scholarship …
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7/22/09
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The Legacy of Irving Bunim
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 17, 2009 / 25 Tammuz 5769
While the popular jingle goes, “Summertime and the living is easy,” for the Jewish people, the …
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7/15/09
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