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Leonard Grunstein

Apr 27, 2018, 7:20 AM

A Traveling Merchant’s Prescription for Life in the Age of Social Media

The Bible prohibits spreading gossip. Does that mean that the use of social media should be enjoined, as well? After all isn’t it a haven for gossip and slander? Doesn’t it enable people to harm others with their words?...

Kenneth Brander

Apr 25, 2018, 4:38 PM

After Death, Holiness is Proclaimed: Reflections on being in Israel for Yom Hazikaron and Yom Haatzmaut

As my plane touches down on the Newark tarmac, I am reflecting upon the events of last week, my first opportunity of being in Israel for Yom Hazikaron (Memorial Day) and Yom Haatzmaut (Independence Day) as a member of...

William Hamilton

Apr 20, 2018, 6:49 PM

The texture of trust

In the midst of the 1936 Depression a rancher named Bob Hall died of cancer leaving his family in deep debt. Columnist David Brooks recounted this week how Hall’s grandson described his ancestor’s desperation. The surviving children pleaded with...

Esther Goldenberg

Apr 20, 2018, 5:33 PM

Fun Facts about Lice

You didn't think there was such a thing as a fun fact about lice, did you? Okay, full disclosure, the word fun might just be in there for the sake of illuminating alliteration. But I stand by the information,...

Apr 18, 2018, 10:50 AM

Since Passover, Diaspora Jews have been playing catch-up in terms of reading the Torah, That's why there are four answers to the question of "What's this week's portion?" In the Diaspora, Leviticus 12-15 will be read, Tazria and Metzora;...

Apr 13, 2018, 6:31 PM

The Fair Umm Al Hiran Agreement Israel Reneged On

“In the framework of several meetings that took place between Benny Tefilin (representing the Issa and Mousa groupings of the Abu-El Qian family living in the Hiran area) and Yigal Buskalia on behalf of the Bedouin Directorate in February-March...

Apr 13, 2018, 12:11 PM

Praise for others can save your marriage

Illustrative: A senior couple. (shironosov/iStock via Getty images)

It's not clickbait, because it's true: Speak well of people and you'll heal what gossip harms (Tazria-Metzora)

Ben-Tzion Spitz

Apr 9, 2018, 2:14 PM

Tazria-Metzora: Easy Murder

Murderers are not monsters, they're men. And that's the most frightening thing about them. -Alice Sebold The Torah spends several chapters on the ritual treatment of a biblical spiritual malady called “Tzaraat” popularly mistranslated as leprosy. The person who suffered...

Ariel Ben Avraham

Apr 7, 2018, 11:18 PM

Tazria-Metzora: Keeping goodness pure and clean (II)

The two portions of the Torah we read this week encompass commandments related to purity and impurity in relation to our connection with the Creator. Our Sages refer to these subjects in the context of the forty years prior...

May 4, 2017, 6:31 AM

Israel Today, Celebrating Purely Life

This past week Jewry solemnly remembered the six million Kedoshim and Israel’s fallen soldiers.These monumental dates were followed by celebrations marking Israel’s 69 years of independence. One day after “Yom HaShoah,” Germany - the country responsible for forever blackening our...

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