A US Air Force chaplain who lives in Hewlett introduced his new book, “Jokes, Quotes, and More,” to a Woodmere audience last week.
The book is a compilation of Rabbi Levi …
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By Nechama Bluth, The Jewish Star
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2/5/25
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A unique liturgical feature of this holiday is the recitation within the Amidah and Birkat Hamazon of Al Hanissim acknowledging the miracles of that long ago era, of history’s first open …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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12/18/24
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It is rare indeed that an impactful social activist changes his stripes to become a serious and respected academic, eschewing action for theory.
Such an exception is Ronen Shoval, who, as a …
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By Douglas Altabef
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12/11/24
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W e live in interesting times that witness murder as state policy and also brazen and often violent religious intolerance.
These are also times, by contrast, of religious tolerance in many …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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12/11/24
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With the Thanksgiving holiday approaching, I would like to bring to your attention a wonderful and informative work entitled, “Thanksgiving: The Holiday at the Heart of the American …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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11/13/24
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Jesus was born in a country called “Palestine,” which is also known as the Holy Land and located between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
This piece of information, which …
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By Canaan Lidor
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11/6/24
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When we think of Noach we tend to envision a flood and a world covered with water. However, in the historical sense, the biblical saga of Noach is transcended by a short listing of …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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10/30/24
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After several decades of a successful legal career, David Friedman, from Woodsburgh in the Five Towns, became US ambassador to Israel in 2017 under then-President Donald Trump and orchestrated major …
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By Andrew Pessin
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10/30/24
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What an irony. I always knew that the first commentary on a Sukkot machzor describing the rather sharp medieval reaction to a British-based Simchat Torah service would come from the pen of a former …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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10/14/24
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If Herschel Hepler, associate curator of Hebrew manuscripts at Museum of the Bible, hadn’t been searching Google Images in April 2016 …
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By Menachem Wecker, JNS
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10/9/24
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