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Parshas VaYeitzei: What is Yaakov afraid of?
Let's examine the image of the ladder closely
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Some thoughts on Self-Hating and Self-Denying Jews in the current antisemitic climate, now and a century ago
When Arabs slaughtered (literally) the Jew in Hebron in 1929, the Communist Party said it was the fault of the Jews and the Arabs were in the right. …
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Answering a listener's query re: allegorical interpretations of Biblical stories in ultra-orthodox sources
If the Hebrew language pre-existed the physical world, then it is not subject to the rules of linguistic evolution, and if is constitutive of the phy…
10 months, 2 weeks ago
Today's Posthumous Promotion of Alfred Dreyfus to General in the French Army
Was Alfred Dreyfus really a self-hating or self-denying assimilated Jew?
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Haftarah Toldos: Quantity vs. quality in the performance of mitzvos. An age-old problem. Sigh
"אֶת עֵקֶב אָהַבְתִּי וְאֶת עֵשָׂו שָׂנֵאתִי" - ?Why
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Manasseh Ben Israel's (very recently translated from the Latin) "Thirty Problem Concerning מַעֲשֵׂה בְּרֵאשִׁית"
Giving the Jewish POV of Genesis to the world of European Intellectuals in the 17th Century
10 months, 3 weeks ago
Parshas Toldos: Was Yitzchak Avinu poverty-stricken (Ibn Ezra)?
Yaakov acquires claim to Israel through purchase, a sale subsequently resented by the seller. Sounds like Jewish History in Israel 1880-1948
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10 months, 3 weeks ago
The recent 50th anniversary (November 10, 1975) of Moynihan's great speech at the UN excoriating the אֻמּוֹת הָעוֹלָם for offcially branding Zionism as Racism
One of the great speeches in the English language of the 20th century חֲבָל עַל דְּאָבְדִין וְלָא מִשְׁתַּכְחִין
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10 months, 4 weeks ago
Rabbi Michoel Forshlager of Baltimore: His recent yahrtzeit and some thoughts on this remarkable gadol
Whole busloads come to Baltimore every week to pray at the kever of a person who, a short time ago, was unknown...
10 months, 4 weeks ago