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God performs two amazing feats of prodigious power in this week’s Torah reading. Most famously the Eternal parts the Sea. That was awesome. However,...
Did you ever hear the joke about the farmer who dug three holes on his property, and whenever he talked to his neighbors he always began, ‘Well,...
Zionism is about a love affair. The Jewish people love the Land and we firmly believe that the Land loves us. That relationship probably began in this...
As the war continues, it’s hard not to think of everything one encounters in the light of the continuing emergency. That is especially true of the...
It’s marvelous every year to get back to Lech Licha. I’m always a bit uncomfortable with the book of Breishit until Avraham Avinu arrives on the...
The name of our ruthless enemy who callously murdered, raped and kidnapped so many people on our border with Gaza is an acronym formed from the Arabic...
I write these articles every week, sometimes two. I have come to find the process relatively easy, as I just keep cranking them out. But not this...
Hoshana Raba is clearly one of the most important days of the Jewish calendar, rivaled only by Yom Kippur. For those of you saying, ‘You gotta be...
When I was in NCSY many years ago, I remember getting a pamphlet called: The Chosen People; Chosen for What? I can’t remember anything from that...
Over the past couple of weeks, my wife and I have been talking a lot about how we should feel as we enter this period of time, called the Ten Days of...
Rabbi Adin Shteinzaltz pointed out that calling our New Year’s commemoration Rosh Hashanah, Head of the Year, doesn’t really make sense. No where...