After she finished reading Dara Horn’s novel “The World to Come,” my wife said to me, “The last chapter is amazing.” I am more of a non-fiction reader, but on her advice …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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10/10/17
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There is a powerful story I heard many years ago but never shared publicly, considering it too fantastic to possibly be true. But having recently read an accounting of it in Yitta Halberstam’s …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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10/10/17
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While Shemini Atzeret occurs at the end of Succot, it is, as Midrash Bereshit Rabbah notes, a chag bifnei atzmo (festival in its own right) rather than a part of Succot. (100:7) This is clearly …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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10/10/17
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As we broke fast this year, my family commented on the light meal I was serving and wanted to know where was the kugel and the salmon mousse and the cranberry walnut cake and bagels and lox and …
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By Joni Schockett
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10/10/17
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Jerry has always had a strong sense…
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By Judy Joszef
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10/10/17
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American Jewish leaders are denouncing plans by a New York University-affiliated theater to host a play that portrays Palestinian terrorists as heroes.
“The Siege,” which opens …
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By Rafael Medoff, JNS
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10/10/17
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One of the most charismatic young rabbis in education today is Rabbi Aryeh Cohen, the Mashgiach Ruchani at the DRS High School in Woodmere. Rabbi Cohen has assembled in book form (“From The …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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10/8/17
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The festival of Succot contains two major mitzvot, dwelling in the Succah on the night of the 15th of Tishrei, and the taking of the Arba’at ha-Minim (the Four Species). Both of these acts are …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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10/3/17
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The holiday of Thanksgiving in the United States of America is classically observed as a celebration of G-d’s bounty. It is for the same reason, according to Ramban, that the Torah tells us to …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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10/3/17
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His steely eyes should have given him away, but over 30 years ago, I was a new immigrant, only four months into my Israeli army service, and I had no idea who this Lieutenant General really was. We …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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10/3/17
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