Opinion: From the other side of the bench
By David Seidemann
Issue of March 6, 2009 / 10 Adar 5769
We sat around the table, the rabbis, three of them, the maybe soon to be ex-husband, …
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3/5/09
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By Micah D. Halpern
Issue of June 19, 2009 / 27 Sivan 5769
Americans have been duped, hoodwinked by mainstream media, fed false hope and provided with erroneous information.
I need to …
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6/17/09
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From the other side of the bench
by David Seidemann
Issue of January 1, 2010/ 15 Tevet 5770
What a week. No matter where you turned it seemed that the news revolved around parents and …
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12/30/09
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With Pesach literally just around the corner, I would like to take this opportunity to suggest several Haggadah selections, as well some other learning resources, that, hopefully, will serve to further enhance your holiday.
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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4/5/12
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One of the more fascinating narratives in the Torah is the one surrounding the fate of Moshe, the great leader, and his passionate effort to gain entry into the Promised Land. In last week’s parsha he seemed to imply that the episode of the spies doomed him to the same fate as the entire generation (Devarim 1:37).
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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8/2/12
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The Senate passed the “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” by a wide margin. The bill was full of pork — it had something for everybody with the one exception that it did not have anything for those who wanted the United States’ borders secured. The border security amendment praised in the press had holes in it so large you could drive a space shuttle through any of them.
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/3/13
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As usual I was stumped for a topic for this week’s article. Upon awakening to snow on Monday, I remembered the time I was “forced” to go white water rafting.
It was 1984 and our good friend Shimmy Stein put together a white water rafting expedition to Lehigh. He had his chevra from Forest Hills (us) and his friends from everywhere else. All my friends said it would be a great experience and that I had to try it at least once. The Webers and Maels were also going and talked me into it as well.
As we got close to our destination, I started to panic. I knew I was going to hate it.
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By Judy Joszef
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11/13/13
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You are snuggly under your blanket or in your sleeping bag when all that peace and serenity comes to an abrupt halt. Shouting and yelling, darkness turning into abrupt harsh light, sleeping bags …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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11/13/14
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In the sweltering heat of a Chicago summer, my friend marched outside the South African consulate, protesting apartheid. Years earlier, she had protested Jim Crow in front of a Woolworths store in …
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By Abraham H. Miller, JNS.org
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8/12/15
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“When in Rome, do as the Iranians do.”
That was the core message from Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s visit to Europe last week, in a bid to boost trade relations now that the …
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By Ben Cohen
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2/3/16
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