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Joseph C. Kaplan

Jul 6, 2018, 11:17 PM

Ani Ledodi V’dodi Li

Since my retirement (It’s Not an Ugly Word, Ernest, 1/5/18), the two most frequent questions I’ve been asked are (a) are you enjoying it and (b) what are you doing with yourself? While the answer to the first is...

Jul 5, 2018, 10:55 AM

Pre-Birth Memories

There are family memories of history and life events long before I was born. They were related to me by my parents long years ago, in days of youth when I could better understand. My mother was born into a...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 27, 2018, 10:31 PM

Do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God

In the Haftara for Parshat Balak (Micha 5:6-6:8), we read the prophecy of Micha which recalls some of the ways in which God protected B’nai Yisrael during the forty years that they spent in the wilderness. One of the...

Jun 26, 2018, 10:01 PM

The Grasshopper and the Giant

The Torah relates the story of the twelve spies whom Moses had sent to search out the land and to bring their reports to him. Ten of the twelve spies came back with negative reports. “The men are like giants...

Allen S. Maller

Jun 23, 2018, 12:06 AM

Ultra-orthodox rabbis who distrust Jews

Everyone who works in the Israeli Rabbinate bureaucracy should be required to study the Talmud's sad story of Timna. The Talmud (Sanhedrin 99b) condemns those who push potential converts away by relating that Isaac and Jacob pushed away Timna...

Raymond M. Berger

Jun 18, 2018, 11:07 PM

Chen pulled me into his stories like metal shavings to a magnet. What happened to Zalmo was the most shocking thing we learned when we returned to Santa Cruz. But it was not the only thing that had changed. Santa Cruz When...

Jun 17, 2018, 12:54 PM

‘As I Like It’…. But Really ‘As You Like It’

Some 13 years ago I walked onto a stage in Merkaz Hamagshimim's Center Stage Theater in Jerusalem' German Colony never knowing that I would not only one day run the place, but that I would have one of the most...

Leonard Grunstein

Jun 15, 2018, 8:35 AM

A Tale of Two Households

It was a time of wisdom; it was a time of folly. It was a study in contrasts, as two individuals emerged and had a profound influence, one positive and the other negative, on the fate of others. One awesome...

Jun 3, 2018, 9:12 PM

How to Impress Your Date: 8 Great Ideas in the Jerusalem Area

Jerusalem is a great city for dating because this amazing city has it all. There are cultural activities, spiritual activities, culinary activities, extreme sports, romantic overlooks and so much more. Inspired by Daniella Rudoff, a well known matchmaker in Israel and the Marriage Architect, I began...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 27, 2018, 8:07 PM

Saluting the Brave

You can count on me to be a voice of good cheer on this holiday weekend. More school children were gunned down in America than US soldiers were killed in battle last year. Black men are 13 times as likely to...

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