T he Yalkut Shimoni’s opening comment in his Midrashic exposition on Parshas Vayakhel is translated as follows:
Vayakhel Moshe, and Moshe gathered: Our Rabbis, the master Aggadists, said …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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3/6/24
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Editor’s note: With life in Russia increasingly under the gun, and with its Jews again in the crosshairs, we revisit this column from 2013.
How ironic that a published history of the …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/6/24
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Purim, which begins at motzei Shabbat on March 23, is rooted in Jewish survival in the Persian Empire, thanks to the bravery and Jewish pride of Mordechai and Esther. …
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By Ethel G. Hofman
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3/6/24
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Q uite a few years ago, I spent almost every Sunday afternoon in one of the great museums of the city where we then lived. I no longer remember what first stimulated my interest in art, and …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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3/6/24
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Melanie Reid, a journalist with The Times of London, is a quadriplegic who, with a wry lack of self-pity, calls her weekly essay Spinal Column. She told how she, her husband, and others in their …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt"l
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3/6/24
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Gov. Kathy Hochul apologized for an “inappropriate analogy” and “poor choice of words” in making a geographical comparison between Hamas and Canada.
“If Canada …
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2/21/24
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After Mazi Pilip steadfastly refused to throw former President Donald Trump under the bus in her failed congressional campaign, Trump declined to return the favor.
He mocked Pilip, the …
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2/21/24
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The world looks a lot different from Kibbutz Kfar Aza than it does in the United States or any other point on the planet. The difference is obvious in Tel Aviv, Jerusalem or anywhere else in Israel.
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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2/21/24
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Bingo Wholesale, a discounter known as the "Kosher Costco," opened in the Five Towns on Wednesday.
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2/21/24
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Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who died in prison last week, had been carrying on a correspondence with former prisoner of Zion Natan Sharansky, the Free Press reported on Monday.
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By David Baron, Israel Hayom
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2/21/24
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