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08/07/2023

What Goes Around Comes Around

Is there any truth to the popular statement, “What goes around, comes…

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08/04/2023

Don’t Shame The Name

The concept of “Chilul Hashem,” desecration of God’s name is first…

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08/03/2023

Best-Seller

For a high school dropout who failed English three times, Leon Uris had an…

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08/02/2023

No Holiday as Joyous

Tu b’Av (The Fifteenth of Av), which is today, is no longer the well-known…

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08/01/2023

Kindness to Animals

Animals are among the most important “educational tools” that God provided…

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07/31/2023

Eikev 5783-2023

“Battling Contemporary Abominations” (updated and revised from Eikev…

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07/31/2023

Sir Moses Montefiore

Sir Moses Montefiore (1784-1885) had an extraordinary impact on the world.…

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07/27/2023

Watch Your Language

Once upon a time in American culture, defiant children who uttered certain…

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07/26/2023

The Book of Lamentations

On Tisha b’Av, the ninth of Av, one of the ways that the Jewish people…

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07/25/2023

The First World War and the Jews

A great deal has been written about the devastation that resulted from the…

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07/24/2023

Va’etchanan 5783-2023

"The Dialectic of Body and Soul" (updated and revised from Va’etchanan…

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07/24/2023

Tisha b’Av

This Wednesday night at sunset, the saddest day on the Jewish calendar…

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07/21/2023

Shabbat Chazon

This Shabbat is known as Shabbat Chazon, the Sabbath of the Vision…

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07/20/2023

Barbie’s Jewish Mother

In honor of the arrival of the long awaited Barbie movie this Friday,…

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07/19/2023

Mourning Jerusalem I: A Brief History of the First Temple

Next Wednesday night and Thursday (July 26th and 27th), Jews the world over…

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07/17/2023

Devarim 5783-2023

“Building a ‘New’ Sanctuary” (updated and revised from Devarim 5764-2004)…

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07/17/2023

Does Life Begin at 40?

In 1932 Walter Pitkin published his popular self-help book, Life Begins at…

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07/14/2023

Who Lights The Shabbat Candles?

While lighting Shabbat candles is generally considered a “woman’s mitzvah,”…

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07/13/2023

The Fate of Babel

Born on July 13, 1894 in Odessa, Isaac Babel’s life spanned a tumultuous…

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07/12/2023

Magen David Adom

The opportunity to save a life (hatzalat nefashot) is one of those unique…

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07/11/2023

Immersing the Vessels

When shopping for common kitchen items, one typically does not ask the…

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07/10/2023

Matot-Masei 5783-2023

"The Mitzvah of Living in the Land of Israel” (updated and revised from…

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07/10/2023

Here Kitty, Kitty

While today the two most common types of house pets are cats and dogs, the…

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07/07/2023

Five Wise Sisters

Few women are mentioned by name in the Torah, and those who are, are…

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07/06/2023

Smashing the Tablets

Today's date on the Jewish calendar is the Seventeenth of Tammuz. The sages…

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07/05/2023

Fleeing in the New World

The history of the conversos, those Spanish and Portuguese Jews who hid…

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07/03/2023

Pinchas 5783-2023

“The Conundrum of Pinchas: Do His Actions Set an Unacceptable Precedent?”…

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07/03/2023

Kafkaesque

Franz Kafka was born into a Jewish family on July 3, 1883 near the Old Town…

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06/30/2023

Free To All

On June 30, 2008, the first Jewish Treat was published. There were fewer…

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06/29/2023

Travelin’

Ever feel nervous just before the start of a trip? Ever have sleepless…

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