There is a story told by Rav Ephraim Oshry, one of the last rabbis of the Kovno Ghetto, in his monumental work of Holocaust responsum, Mima’amakim.
When the Nazis arrived in the small …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/15/17
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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 make us, or rather, break us into soldiers, owned us for the night.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/10/12
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Walk through the Old City, and you will find one of the oldest streets in the world. Known as the Cardo, it was built by the Romans nearly 2,000 years ago and was the main thoroughfare in Jerusalem …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/18/18
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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 …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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5/6/20
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Lying on a hill not 400 yards from two terrorists who were firing indiscriminately on the local Jewish civilians behind us, it should have been simple. It’s you or them, on top of which you are …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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2/24/16
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Nineteen hundred and forty two years ago, this week (on the 17th day of the Hebrew month of Tammuz), the end finally began. After two and a half years of siege, the Roman Legions broke through the …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/18/19
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It was the height of the Intifada, and we were in the midst of a months’ worth of reserve duty....It is so easy to demonize the ‘enemy,’ but life isn’t always quite so simple.
Deep in the heart of Hebron was an Israeli lookout position, meant to spot trouble on the road below and protect Israeli civilians driving through.
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/30/12
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A number of years ago, I had an uncomfortable experience. I ran into an old friend who, like me, is an alumnus of Yeshivat Har Etzion in the Gush. He had started a cutting-edge program for women …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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3/28/19
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It was a nasty time in a nasty place: Ramallah, 1988, at Mutzav Sivan, next to the Arab “refugee” camps of Al Bireh and Al Amari during the first intifada. After a week of intense …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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10/3/19
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From the other side of the bench
By David Seidemann
Issue of April 3, 2009 / 9 Nissan 5769
If each book of the five books of Moses was a movie in and of itself, and if Hollywood movie …
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4/1/09
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