admin | July 14, 2022
By Rabbi Binny Freedman Iremember, as a high school student, hearing our rosh yeshiva, Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, relate one of the questions he used to ask when interviewing prospective rebbeim for our high school. Amidst a flurry of questions designed to test their knowledge of halachah and Talmud, he would ask them what they would do (and what the halachic requirement would be), if after ordering an electric shaver, they were accidentally sent two shavers
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admin | July 14, 2022
(July 13, 2022 / JNS) The principle of peace is at the very heart of the Abrahamic faiths.
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admin | July 14, 2022
(JTA) I have long been a keeper of womens stories, many of which relate to fertility and reproductive choices, experiences generally shrouded in secrecy. While I am honored to be trusted with these personal accounts, I look forward to, and am working toward, a time when women will be able to speak more freely about their lives
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admin | July 14, 2022
The chutzpadik gall of Orthodox leaders cheering the US Supreme Courts rejection of Roe v. Wade subverts Torahs values, while doing great lasting damage to women. What do these rabbis think they are doing?
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admin | July 14, 2022
The best way for people to overcome senseless hatred is to meet each other. Its much harder to feel abstract loathing when youre looking into someones actual face. Thats age-old wisdom, its true.
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admin | July 10, 2022
The Midrash states that the commandment of Parah Adumah is the ultimate religious mystery, and its reasons are unknowable. The commandment outlines a purification ritual for those who come in contact with a dead body. A red heifer, or Parah Adumah, is sacrificed on the Mount of Olives, and then burnt on a pyre
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admin | July 10, 2022
The Gospel for this Sunday is here. 1. Jesus teaches us that a stranger is our neighbour Who is my neighbour, Jesus was asked by a scholar of the law immediately after the Teacher told him about the commandment of loving God and his neighbour as himself
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admin | July 10, 2022
Jonathan S. Tobin By Jonathan S. Tobin The Supreme Courts decision to overturn the Roe v
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admin | July 10, 2022
My struggle to find and embrace who I really am. Being the eldest is a blessing. Were constantly reminded by our parents, history, and even researchers that its a privilege to be a firstborn
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admin | July 8, 2022
Any Jew who survived the Holocaust is a brand plucked from the fire (Zechariah 3:2). That is especially true of any European Jew, and even more so of any European Jew who survived the worst of the Holocaust: Auschwitz and then the Death March to Mauthausen in 1945
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