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talmud
Immunity and Impunity: Fear and Loathing in Gaza
David Seidenberg
July 25, 2014
“The terrorists are firing rockets from schools, from mosques, from hospitals, from heavily civilian populations. We have to try and are doing our best to minimize civilian casualties. But we cannot give our attackers immunity or impunity.”
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks spends a weekend in L.A. envisioning the Jewish future
Jared Sichel
February 26, 2014
Swiping his finger to the left, Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks, Britain’s now-former chief rabbi, and arguably the world’s most prominent religious Jewish leader, was looking for a text he felt might show how Orthodox Jews can spread a Jewish message to the Western world.
Glatt or not? Parashat Re’eh (Deuteronomy 11:26-16:17)
Rabbi Dov Fischer
August 1, 2013
The Torah says that the laws of kashrut separate us from the nations and make us a holy people by precluding us from eating detestable things (Deuteronomy 14:2-3, 21).
Drawing close: Parashat Vayigash (Genesis 44:18-47:27)
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
December 19, 2012
With his brother Benjamin’s fate hanging in the balance, Yehuda “draws close” to the Egyptian viceroy (whose true identity is not yet known). Yehuda had sworn to his father he would return Benjamin safely to Canaan, but now Benjamin is facing confinement and servitude in Egypt.
Balancing resources and lives — being Jewish and ‘green’
Amy Hirshberg Lederman
December 11, 2008
Judaism has a lot to say about how to create a balance between using the resources we have and abusing or destroying them.
An incomplete guide to Jewish funerals and burial
Jane Ulman
August 7, 2008
While not everyone is jumping on the \’I gotta be me\’ funeral bandwagon, a funny thing is happening on the way to the mortuary. When it comes to thinking about the end of life, be it in the business of funeral homes or in the minds of Jews everywhere, the world is changing.
Will herstory repeat itself?
Rabbi Stephen Julius Stein
July 31, 2008
Parshat Masei (Numbers 33:1-36:13) With the recent on-court fracas of the WNBA, the historic presidential candidacy of Sen. Hillary Clinton and the real potential for both parties to nominate a woman for vice president, it\’s probably worth our while to consider where we have been, where we are and where we may go in regard to gender equality, both in Torah and in our time
Shavuot 5768: Midrash love
David Suissa
June 5, 2008
When I think of Torah, the first thing that comes to mind is a divine, rigorous system of laws that guides an ethical and holy way of life. The last thing I think about is whimsy and romance
In lieu of perfection
Rabbi Yosef Kanefsky
May 1, 2008
Leviticus 19:1-20:27
Right there, in the shadow of the ever-popular \”Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself,\” another mitzvah quietly sits: \”Thou shall surely rebuke thy friend.\” And while this may seem rude or intrusive, the Torah regards the obligation of mutual rebuke as the engine of communal righteousness.
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