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Laura taking photographs in New Jersey for the Jewish Life Photo Bank, which has since been named in her memory. Laura Ben-David left us on July 17, at only 56 years old, after a battle with ovarian ...
The influential Columbia University professor and Palestinian political activist, Edward Said, characterized Israel’s founding as a manifestation of Western imperialism.
A rebbi in a yeshiva wrote the following letter: A talmid of mine would continuously speak to me negatively of his father. He complained that his father didn’t care about him and thought very little ...
How contemporary the Gemara rings when it says the destruction of Yerushalayim puzzled and perplexed the sages, prophets, and angels! It shouldn’t cause us any wonder that we are unable to explain t ...
You see your date’s internal beauty and you are not bothered by a lack of the typical commercial good looks we are taught to value. But you worry that you will be influenced by the subtle judgment y ...
During the Nine Days – a period devoted to mourning our national tragedies – we also give space to consider the personal dimensions of loss and fragility. For this reason, there’s a minhag to spend ...
The suggestion that Einstein be invited to assume the presidency of the Jewish State was first publicly disseminated by the evening newspaper Maariv. The idea, which spread quickly, became broadly pop ...
Psychologically and sociologically, a conspiracy need not involve maniacal villains plotting world control. It can be an unconscious collusion of interests.
It seems that Schumer, Jeffries, and Hochul may be willing to risk being labeled soft on antisemitism since antisemitism appears more and more to be finding a place in the Democratic Party.
The meraglim not only misunderstood their experience, but they then reported this distortion back to Klal Yisrael.
Though less stringent and with their fated character not having been painfully reinforced over and over again, those other dates do not have an antipode, an escape hatch, if you will, embedded within ...
My parents were very makpid about the Three Weeks, particularly my father. He did not allow us to go on any unnecessary outings starting from Shiva Asar B’Tammuz, and even once we were grown and out ...
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