First in Yitro there were the Aseret Hadibrot, the “Ten Utterances,” the Ten Commandments, expressed as general principles. Now in Mishpatim come the details. Here is how they begin:
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Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks zt”l
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2/7/24
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Let’s not get caught up in the details of the controversy that made headlines about the fact that 12 employees of UNRWA — the UN refugee agency dedicated to assisting the Palestinians …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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1/31/24
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Israelis last week celebrated that the pogromniks only broke the windows, but did not kill anyone. In the twisted world where the International Court of Justice is putting …
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By Eugene Kontorovich
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1/31/24
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It is often believed that antisemitism is essentially an elite phenomenon. Unscrupulous leaders, it is held, exploit hatred of the Jews to further their malicious designs, whipping up popular …
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By Benjamin Kerstein
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1/31/24
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Should governments and public institutions take punitive measures against groups or individuals who promote antisemitism through such measures as cutting funding, criminalizing aspects of their …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/31/24
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With each passing week since the Oct. 7 Hamas pogroms in Israeli communities in southern Israel, the magnitude of the sea change in attitudes towards antisemitism becomes more and more apparent. But …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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1/31/24
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Since the Oct. 7 massacre, American Jews have experienced attacks that are now burned into our souls: On dozens of campuses and nearby streets, Jews have been screamed …
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By Charles Jacobs and Cary Kozberg
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1/31/24
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It is 30 degrees outside, and the wind is howling. It’s amazing how fast winter appears. Sometimes I wonder why I stay in this climate. My nose is always freezing, my lips, …
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By Joni Schockett
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1/31/24
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International Holocaust Remembrance Day — commemorated Jan. 27 (while Israel marks Yom HaShoah on 27 Nisan) — has perhaps never been more difficult to observe.
It should be a day to …
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By Fiamma Nirenstein
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1/31/24
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In an essay titled “Double Adar,” Rabbi Berel Wein writes that “there is an underlying value that the month of Adar possesses that no other month in the Jewish calendar can lay …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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1/31/24
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