The tale I’m about to tell started out as a feel-good movie of the week and ended up as a two-hanky tearjerker of bitterness and betrayal. From solidarity to the nearly unsalvageable, within a …
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By Thane Rosenbaum
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3/27/24
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A mid a volley of paternalistic insults lobbed at Israelis, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer egregiously attempted to resuscitate the two-state solution. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu must …
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By Benjamin Anthony
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3/27/24
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War, the Union Army Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman is famously said to have told a group of army cadets some years after the American Civil War, “is hell.” More than a century and a half …
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By Ben Cohen
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3/27/24
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Purim was subdued for many due to Israel’s ongoing war against Hamas, the trauma of Oct. 7 and the massive rise in antisemitism driven by the pro-Hamas fifth column in many countries. Several …
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By Benjamin Kerstein
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3/27/24
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L ike much of sefer Vayikra, our parasha, Tzav, focuses on the korbanot . Accordingly, the second verse presents the mitzvah of the korban olah:
“Command ( tzav ) Aharon and his sons, …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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3/27/24
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Purim is now behind us and the next time we are going to witness a full moon is exactly one month from now, Pesach. With that exciting thought in mind, I was taken by an essay by Dr. Adele Berlin in …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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3/27/24
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T he world did not know that he was a mystic. He was an accomplished diplomat, who knew how to deal with people in positions of great power. Some characterized him as a shrewd, and even manipulative, …
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By Rabbi Dr. Tzvi Hersh Weinreb
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3/27/24
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In “The Watchman’s Rattle,” subtitled “Think- ing Our Way Out of Extinction,” Rebecca Costa delivers a fascinating account of how civilizations die. When their problems …
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By Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks z"tl
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3/27/24
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Senate Majority Leader Charles Schumer’s obscene call on the Senate floor on Thursday for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ouster from power was the latest sign that …
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By Caroline Glick
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3/20/24
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EDITOR’S NOTE: What follows is the full text of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s speech on March 14, as released by his office.
Schumer’s most explosive expression …
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3/20/24
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