The Massacre – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
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Originally published in The Libertarian Forum, October 1982.
Fog and Noise – LewRockwell LewRockwell.com
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Is there a game on? Consider: What youre seeing may not be what you think youre seeing. If an orderly transition to the next administration meant what you think it means, Nancy Pelosi would not be shrieking for an insta-super-quickie impeachment
Rabbi ousted from Park East Synagogue announces new Manhattan congregation – The Times of Israel
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New York Jewish Week via JTA Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, who made headlines when he was abruptly fired from his position at Manhattans swanky Park East Synagogue, has officially launched a new congregation. In a sermon Goldschmidt gave this past Shabbat, which he also posted to Medium on Tuesday, the rabbi announced that the name of his new congregation which hes starting with his wife, journalist Avital Chizhik-Goldschmidt will be Altneu, a portmanteau of the Yiddish words for old and new. The truth is, this is the closest I will ever get to feeling what it means to give birth to a child, he wrote
D’var Torah by Rabbi Jeffrey Abraham: Fuel good deeds with ‘fire and passion’ – St. Louis Jewish Light
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RABBI JEFFREY ABRAHAMFebruary 17, 2022 Parshat Ki Tissa opens with the admonition, This is what everyone who is entered in the records shall pay (30:13) Gods command was for every male from 20 to 60, rich or poor, to be counted by their half-shekel contribution to the upkeep of the Tent of Meeting (Ohel Moed) and to raise the spiritual level of the contributors. Our foremost commentator, Rashi, tells us that this was to effectuate a census and that God showed Moses a coin that had an image of fire on it to actually accomplish the enumeration. Rashi teaches: [The Holy One] showed [Moses] a coin of fire whose weight was a half-shekel and said, Like this they shall give.
Synagogue service times: Week of February 18 | Synagogues – Cleveland Jewish News
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ConservativeAgudath B'nai Israel Meister Road at Pole Ave., Lorain Ritual Director Mark Jaffee 440-282-3307 abitemplelorain.com 750 White Pond Dr., Akron Rabbi Jeremy Lipton 330-864-2105 bethelakron.com 27501 Fairmount Blvd., Pepper Pike Rabbis Stephen Weiss and Hal Rudin-Luria; Stanley J. Schachter, Rabbi Emeritus; Cantor Aaron Shifman 216-831-6555 bnaijeshurun.org Anshe Emeth Beth Tefilo Congregation 27500 Shaker Blvd, Pepper Pike, OH 44124 Joshua Skoff, Senior Rabbi Sharon Y. Marcus, Associate Rabbi Rosette Barron Haim, Guest Rabbi Milton B.
South Bend Housing Authority plans to tear down 2 long-troubled sites, build new housing – South Bend Tribune
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SOUTH BEND In what would be the first large-scale upgradeto a South Bend Housing Authority property in years, a plan has been developed to demolish both the Rabbi Shulman and Monroe Circle apartment complexes and build new public housing at the site. Though demolition efforts still have to clear procedural hurdles and the process will require relocation for tenants, officials laud it as profound opportunity coming about because ofan influx of federalfunding and the organization's new leadership. Weve got a lot of work ahead of us, said the Housing Authority's executive director, Catherine Lamberg
Security training the new normal – Thousand Oaks Acorn
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On Jan. 15, a gunman held four people including a rabbi hostage at Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, because, in his words, Jews control the world.
The Idolatry of Permanence – Jewish Journal
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Like physicists in search of a unified field theory, the sages of old sought the Torahs great unifying principlethat which encompasses and undergirds all of Gods teachings to the Jewish people. Rabbi Akiva proposed: And you shall love your fellow man as yourself. (Leviticus 19:18) Ben Azzai offered: This is the book of the lineage of Adam.
Traveling exhibit sheds light on the Holocaust during visit to north central Florida – WUFT
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As a young Jewish girl living in Toronto, Jordana Lebowitz decided her purpose in life was to help keep the memory of the Holocaust alive. Lebowitz, now 26, was just 16 years old when she traveled to Poland and Israel with the March of the Living, an international program that educates people about the history of the Holocaust by taking them to those countries
Holocaust victims opera stored for years in trunk gets premiere at last – The Guardian
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An opera score retrieved from a San Francisco basement has had its world premiere in a German theatre, exuberantly brought to life by more than 150 musicians and performers nearly 80 years after its composer was murdered by the Nazis. Grete Minde, a late-romantic opera of 1920s jazz-inspired melodies and large orchestral sounds, was the work of Eugen Engel, a Berlin-based Jewish textile tradesman in his day job, who gave his handwritten sheet music to his daughter for safekeeping when she escaped to the United States in 1941
