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Rebecca Weisman

Apr 26, 2018, 3:35 PM

Our children have eyes on us

Illustrative. Mother with kids in the park. (iStock)

Model the commitment you want the kids to actualize to go the distance with the causes they choose

Joseph Isaac Korf

May 6, 2017, 12:12 AM

The War Within Leads to Love With Others:A Lesson for the Sefirah Days

R' Shlomo Maidancik, ob"m, who served as mayor of Kefar Chabad, Israel for many years, was also one of the community leaders and a stalwart for Jewish causes not to mention many Chabad activities. This brought him close to...

William Hamilton

May 6, 2017, 12:07 AM

Israel: Jewish life’s change-agent

Two thousand years ago Jewish life underwent revolutionary change in response to exile from our homeland. Dynastic leadership was democratized as priests gave way to rabbinic sages. Temple-centered offerings were replaced by local prayer communities. The Pascal offering was...

Shammai Engelmayer

May 4, 2017, 8:15 PM

Holiness and the counter clerk

Who and what we are as a people are encapsulated this week in a single chapter of the Torah, Leviticus 19—a chapter often referred to in this column because it is, in fact, a condensed version of the entire...

May 4, 2017, 3:18 PM

Holiness in our generation (Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim)

What does it mean to be holy? In our generation, the emotionally-charged observance of Yom Hazikaron – when we honor the memories of those who have lost their lives defending the State of Israel – provides poignant answers to this...

May 4, 2017, 3:17 PM

Judaism’s Three Voices (Acharei-Mot & Kedoshim 5777)

The nineteenth chapter of Vayikra, with which our parsha begins, is one of the supreme statements of the ethics of the Torah. It’s about the right, the good and the holy, and it contains some of Judaism’s greatest moral...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

May 4, 2017, 3:16 PM

Reverence vs. Honor

Parshat Kedoshim, Vayikra 19:3 states: “Every person should revere their mother and their father and keep My Shabbatot, I am the Lord your God.” In Parshat Yitro, Shmot 20:12 (the Ten Commandments) we read: “Honor your father and your mother...

May 4, 2017, 9:59 AM

Kedoshim – The Secret of Shaatnez

In this week’s Parasha, the law of shaatnez was ordained: וּבֶגֶד כִּלְאַיִם שַׁעַטְנֵז, לֹא יַעֲלֶה עָלֶיךָ …neither shall there come upon thee a garment of two kinds of stuff mingled together. (Lev 19:9) The “stuff mingled”, i.e. shaatnez, is further clarified as...

May 4, 2017, 9:57 AM

“Ludicrous” Parashat Acharei Mot – Kedoshim 5777

The 2001 movie “The Man who Sued G-d” stars Billy Connolly as a disillusioned lawyer turned fisherman whose boat is destroyed by a bolt of lightning during a freak storm. When the insurance company refuses to pay up, calling...

Ben-Tzion Spitz

May 4, 2017, 6:29 AM

Acharei Mot: Double-Edged Stubbornness

Obstinacy in a bad cause is but constancy in a good. -Sir Thomas Browne One of the highlights of the service of the High Priest in the Temple on Yom Kippur was the unusual sacrifice procedure of the two goats....

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