His face is a study of pure determination, seeking every depression in the rock. There is little room for mistake. One slip will result in a 3,200-foot free-fall to the valley floor below. But he …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/7/19
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A Pew poll released in 2016 poll suggested that most Israelis, Arabs and Jews alike, appeared to have lost hope in a two-state solution.
“Nearly half (48 percent) of Israeli Jews …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/31/19
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In 1801, Thomas Jefferson had finally had enough. For the better part of 25 years, Americans had been paying ransom and tribute to the Arab nations of the Barbary Coast (Morocco, Algeria, …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/24/19
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Not long ago, I heard a powerful vignette from Rabbi Marvin Hier, the former director of the Simon Wiesenthal center. When Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, celebrated …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/18/19
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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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The sensei clapped his hands loudly — “Yame!” (“Stop!”) — and the entire dojo went silent.
We all gathered and sat as our sensei strode to the front of …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/3/19
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A black and white image of a Jew being beaten in the streets of Vienna. Jews being forced onto trains and deported. A column of Jews with despairing faces, forced out of town, herded down a …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/27/19
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We all love getting those cute 3-minute video clips during the day that give us a laugh or a smile. Recently, someone sent me a clip that got me thinking. In it, a fellow gives his two sons a …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/21/19
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On September 7, 2007, Israel bombed a compound of buildings in eastern Syria, which, as it later reported, was a nuclear reactor being built with the assistance of North Korea. In a 2012 article …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/12/19
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We were driving southeast in Lebanon, from Beirut back down towards Marjayoun, when the shelling started. Our Jeep driver was in a near panic. He was not part of our regular unit; he was a …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/5/19
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