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Rabban Gamliel and the Matzah at the Seder - the interpretation of Abarbanel
It is NOT about the affliction, it is about the hope for the messianic redemption in the near future. This is Abarbanel speaking to the battered Seph…
6 months, 2 weeks ago
"The Chuck Norris Era" in American popular culture as it relates to the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Can "Christian Zionism" flourish in the aftermath of the Cold War? Or is it a phenomenon confined to older Americans?
6 months, 2 weeks ago
More on Israel-German Relations (and Non-Relations) in the 1950s and 60s. And some comments on Trump's retort to the Japanese today
Trump joked about the Pearl Harbor Attack of 1941. Actually, this resulted in Hitler stupidly declaring war on the USA (thus sealing his own doom) , …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
R Katz analyzes aspects of the latest developments in the chaotic war-situation
Are Bibi and Trump encouraging the Syrians to invade Lebanon and "disarm" (i.e., exterminate) Hezbollah? Who gains from that? This is reminiscent of …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
הַפְטָרַת פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ו - Korbanos in Judaism and in Paganism
Man-made idols do not offer moral criticism!
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Various definitions of אִשָּׁה חֲשׁוּבָה (Passover Seder)
Looks? Bucks? Yichus? Higher salary? Higher job position? Class? Equal Partner in the Marriage?
6 months, 3 weeks ago
פָּרָשַׁת וַיִּקְרָא תשפ"ו - Rambam on Korbanos that don't make sense
For the first year after the original Passover, there were basically no korbanos (with a few exceptions) in Judaism
6 months, 3 weeks ago
More Strange Bedfellows: Germany financed Israel's A- Bomb Project (Dimona) back in the 1960s. A story in the news today
Israel agreed not to "out" ex-Nazis in the West German Government. A grateful Germany bankrolled Israel's secret nuclear project. An previously unkn…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
זֵכֶר יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם VS סִפּוּר יְצִיאַת מִצְרַיִם part 1
What did the Jews imagine was going to happen when they were told God would "pass over" their houses that night?
6 months, 4 weeks ago
Some historical considerations re: Poles, Jews, Hitler, Food, and the Holocaust
The German food crisis of 1942 as a cause of the setting-up of industrial genocide centers in Occupied Poland in 1942
7 months ago