This week’s parsha, Sh’lach, contains one of the most challenging stories in the entire Torah: the story of the spies.
It’s an incredible moment in Jewish history — with …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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6/7/18
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Like any embattled minority that needed positive role models, early- and mid-20th-century Jews living in the United States embraced celebrities with any sort of tie to the tribe. Though most were not …
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By Jonatan S. Tobin
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6/7/18
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The essence of Memorial Day is to remember and honor the brave men and women who served in the U.S. military, without whom we wouldn’t have the beautiful free and protected country we are …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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6/7/18
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When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely establish a commemoration of the ghastly …
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By Edwin Black
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6/7/18
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If the name sounds familiar, it may be because New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand praised anti-Semite Tamika Mallory and her fellow Jew-hater Linda Sarsour in the 2017 Time Magazine “Time …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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6/7/18
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My late friend and mentor, Professor Mair Jose Benardete, once told me: “You don’t determine truth by counting bonnets!” When seeking truth, one must not be swayed by majorities. …
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By Rabbi Marc D. Angel
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6/7/18
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I believe a potentially life-changing message emerges from Rav Eliyahu Mizrahi’s profound analysis of Rashi’s comment, namely, the nearly unlimited power of tefilah. Moses’ …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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6/7/18
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This week I bring to your attention a newly published volume by the Torah Web Foundation, “Chinuch: Contemporary & Timeless,” which deals with, as its title tell us, education for our …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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6/7/18
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If there is one issue on which there ought to be a political consensus even in an era of almost unprecedented partisan division, it should be opposition to anti-Semitism. Yet a dispute over whether …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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5/30/18
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is in the midst of one of his periodic bouts of Israel-hatred, lashing out at the Jewish state and its leaders with all the insults (“Nazi,” …
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By Ben Cohen
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5/30/18
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