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Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 6, 2018, 8:37 PM

Guess who was not involved in the sin of the spies?

When we speak about Chet HaMiraglim, the sin of the spies, we mention that Yehoshua and Calev were the only two of the twelve spies who did not bring a false report and they were therefore not punished as...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 2, 2018, 12:08 AM

For thousands of years, it must have sounded crazy that Jews would be the apple of G-d's eye. The idea that this tiny decimated universally despised group scattered around the world would return en masse to Palestine to reshape...

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 25, 2018, 12:32 PM

Krauthammer's keen sense of limitation

Charles Krauthammer (YouTube screenshot)

If you never watched Fox News, you missed a national treasure

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 22, 2018, 4:28 PM

Moshe’s work is never done

In Parshat Chukat (Bamidbar 20:7-8), God asked Moshe to speak to the rock so that it may bring forth water. However, Moshe hit the rock instead of speaking to it. In verse 12, God said to Moshe and Aharon,...

Jun 22, 2018, 1:21 AM

Illegal Immigration and Child Separation

Finally, the Dems may have found an issue they can run on in November. The economy? No, it is very robust and improving further. Consumer confidence is the highest it has been in years. Unemployment? No, it has been...

Elaine Rosenberg Miller

Jun 21, 2018, 3:25 PM

Death, uninvited, entered the room. My father's fingers slipped from mine, his once strong hands, blotched, torn by the ravages of his illness. He fought and fought and yet, the heartless clock on the hospital wall advanced. In my mind, he is...

Jun 21, 2018, 2:16 PM

The consolations of mortality

'Moses Striking Water from the Rock,' by Nicolas Poussin, 1649. (Wikimedia Commons)

Our lives may feel depressingly inconsequential, but they have immense purpose (Hukat)

Jun 19, 2018, 5:52 PM

This month in history – June

Below please find a list of historically significant events that occurred during the month of June. June 3, 1937 - After abdicating the British throne, The Duke of Windsor, formerly known as King Edward VIII, married Wallis Simpson, an American...

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