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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 3, 2018, 1:46 AM

What Dating Should NOT Be… If You’re Looking for Something Real.

I’ve learned a lot about dating over the years --and not just from my own. Through coaching single men and women in the dating process, and surviving a fairly lengthy one myself, it’s clear: There are some very good...

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 27, 2018, 7:06 PM

Agunot must not be sacrificed on the altar of reform

A new bill was passed recently in the Knesset's Constitution, Law and Justice Committee amending the law regarding the jurisdiction of the Israeli rabbinical courts. The amendment will grant the rabbinical courts international authority to adjudicate the divorce proceedings of...

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...

Yisrael Ben Yosef

Jun 20, 2018, 12:08 AM

Great Me/Small Me

"Where were you?" "Couldn't you see I needed your help?" "My Mom had to call my sister because I couldn't get her on her feet alone...and you sat outside and did nothing!" With those words my wife berated me early...

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 13, 2018, 8:46 AM

The Supreme Court’s Half Baked Decision: An Update on the Wedding Baker Case

Well, it's June -- the month that the United States Supreme Court customarily issues its decisions in the highest profile cases of its term. True to form, the Court last week issued its decision in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado...

Jun 5, 2018, 8:00 PM

Don’t America’s liberal rabbis have better things to do than snipe at Israel?

Why smearing Democrats as “Anti-Israel” wont sway voters The above headline appears in the February 4th issue of Forward, although I will not be reading the pearls of wisdom written by its author Aaron Davis a former Obama flunky now re-tooled...

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