While the debate over what Moshe’s father-in-law “heard” opens up the discussions on the first verse of the parsha, several verses later the Torah tells us “vayichad …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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1/27/16
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This letter is in response to a cover story in The Jewish Star’s Jan 8 edition.
I would like to clear up several inaccuracies regarding The Jewish Star’s front-page story, …
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By Mark L. Claster, Chair, Northwell Health Board of Trustees
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1/27/16
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With great interest last week, I followed the saga of the African-American boycotts of the Oscars. They aren’t totally wrong — after all, Will Smith, one of the biggest names in the …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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1/27/16
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We are all still reeling from the news — a mother of six children who, despite heroically fighting back, was brutally butchered into submission amidst bloodcurdling screams and a pool of blood, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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1/27/16
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Another week, another litany of ugly incidents targeting Jews, along with expressions of concern about rising anti-Semitism around the globe, and even the odd solution offered up. But as …
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By Ben Cohen
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1/27/16
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While not every observant Jew is a football fanatic, those who are will join one of America’s largest television audiences on Sunday, Feb. 7, to watch the Carolina Panthers face the Denver …
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By Ed Weintrob
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1/27/16
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On Rosh Chodesh Shevat, women who attended the Ohel Sara Amen Group in Lawrence enjoyed a lecture by the witty and informative Dr. Henry Abramson about the contribution of women to the Kabbalistic …
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By Celia Weintrob
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1/27/16
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The eyes of America are on Iowa as the state prepares to host the first-in-the-nation primary caucuses next Monday night. While Iowa is off the radar of most frum Jews, the Chabad Lubavitch emissary …
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By Miriam Karp
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1/27/16
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For many of us when we read the word aggadah, we assume that the subject deals with legend. However, after you read the book under review this week, the very concept of aggadah will take on a new, …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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1/26/16
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David Blatt, the Jewish head coach of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Cleveland Cavaliers and previously the coach of Israel’s Maccabi Tel Aviv franchise, on Friday was fired …
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JNS.org
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1/24/16
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