Most of the news we get about America these days is about the awful demonstrations on the university campuses. They already stopped calling for a ceasefire, and have starting demanding …
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By Shari Hartuv
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5/15/24
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Riverdale marked a somber Yom HaZikaron on Monday night, with several hundred people filling the SAR HS auditorium to listen to SAR choirs, the chanting of Tehilim, words about soldiers and hostages …
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/15/24
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Just as many have asked, “Where were America’ s Jews in the 1930s and during the Shoah ?, ” our grand-children will ask, “Where were you after Oct. 7?”
That’s …
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By Ed Weintrob
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5/15/24
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The beginning of our parasha, Emor, focuses upon a variety of laws that pertain solely to the kohanim. From a halachic perspective, they have little to do with the majority of the Jewish people, as …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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5/15/24
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It was our first masah , our first forced march. We were barely two weeks in the army and Itzik, a sadistic little first sergeant who had made it his mission to break us into soldiers, owned us for …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/15/24
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This week’s book, “The Accidental Zionist” by Rabbi Ian Pear (New Song Publishers, 2008) is an informal, somewhat irreverent book, zany at times about subjects that are dead …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/15/24
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Dead. Unburied. Abandoned. Forgotten. What can be a worse fate?
I once read a very moving novel about the events immediately preceding World War I and the fate of those who were caught up in the …
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By Rabbi Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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5/15/24
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A longside the holiness of place and person is the holiness of time, something parshat Emor charts in its deceptively simple list of festivals and holy days (Lev. 23:1-44).
Time plays an …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks z"tl
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5/15/24
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I have often wondered about the history of some of the foods that are commonly associated with Jewish cuisine. One thing I often wondered about when I was a kid was kugel.
My grandmother made a …
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By Joni Schockett
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5/15/24
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For decades, American Jewry has marked Yom Hashoah with the same rituals and rhetoric. They heard from survivors, whose numbers continue to dwindle and who bore witness about their horrific …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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5/8/24
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