A time of year that helps teach us why Jerusalem is so important
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 10, 2009 / 18 Tammuz 5769
Jerusalem. Just the sound of the word should set off …
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7/8/09
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Sefer Bamidbar to the Founding Fathers
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 3, 2009 / 11 Tammuz 5769
In Hebrew it is called Bamidbar. Translated, that would mean desert, but we know this …
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7/1/09
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Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of June 26, 2009 / 4 Tammuz 5769
Let me start by saying that this is a very informal, somewhat irreverent book –– zany at times about subjects that are …
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6/24/09
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How to make this summer a worthwhile reading experience (part two)
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of June 19, 2009 / 27 Sivan 5769
With Father’s Day on Sunday, I thought that it would be …
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6/17/09
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How to make this summer a worthwhile reading experience (part one)
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of June 12, 2009 / 20 Sivan 5769
With the advent of summer, I am once again presenting a list …
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6/10/09
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Issue of June 5, 2009 / 13 Sivan 5769
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
With the Shavuot holiday past, we now come to the second cycle in the weekly study of the Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the …
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6/3/09
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A tribute on the Yahrtzeit of King David
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of May 29, 2009 / 6 Sivan 5769
In the introduction to his classic translation of the Psalms, Rabbi Avraham Davis stated …
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5/27/09
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No book so completely unites the dispersed people of Israel. If any single volume can tell us what it means to be a Jew, it is the Siddur which embodies the visions and aspirations, the sorrows and joys of many generations …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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5/19/09
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By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of May 15, 2009 / 21 Iyar 5769
Some years ago while teaching a course on the Holocaust in English literature at Brooklyn’s F.D.R. High School, one of my …
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5/14/09
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By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of May 8, 2009 / 14 Iyar 5769
“Ish imo v’aviv tira’u …You shall each fear your mother and father.”
This Sunday is Mother’s Day. Should you by any …
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5/6/09
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