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Menachem Creditor

Jul 2, 2018, 11:12 AM

Redemption in a Mighty Jewish Rumpus

The past seventy-two hours have offered an amazing array gifts of comfort and inspiration to this rabbi's heart. No verbal description could possibly do the experience justice. But here goes: I'm at Camp Ramah in Northern California, my third summer...

Jun 29, 2018, 5:54 PM

Parashat Pinhas: be prepared…even with regret

“Assail the Midianites and defeat them for they assailed you by the trickery they practiced against you” (Numbers 25:16-18). This is G-d’s command to Moses, after rewarding Aaron’s grandson Pinchas for his response to a public and wanton act of...

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, 3:01 PM

Sodom outlawed immigrants too

Protesters at a Jewish rally at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement headquarters in New York City demonstrate against the government’s border separation policy, June 21, 2018. (Ben Sales/JTA)

The US should look out -- a country that closes its doors to those seeking refuge inevitably destroys itself

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jun 23, 2018, 11:42 PM

Reclaim your integrity!

I want to tell you about the value of truthfulness and what's connected to that. But first some words about how this sits with me. Through no virtue of my own, I turned out an honest person. My father happened...

Jun 21, 2018, 3:26 PM

Book review – Hasidism: A New History

The Major League Baseball All-Star Game gets the best players in the game onto two teams every year. But what one see from this is that getting the best players together doesn’t always mean they are integrated team that...

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...

Shmuly Yanklowitz

Jun 15, 2018, 7:09 AM

Making a blessing before we exercise!

It’s not too far of a stretch to imagine that, for most of us, our daily routines center around sedentary activities. We sit around a lot during the day, whether at our desk, or waiting in traffic, or unwinding...

Jun 10, 2018, 12:57 AM

50 shades of black

“There is no legal way of stopping them,” sighed David Pavilion, commander of the Tel Aviv police sector. “They aren’t asking for an entertainment platform, they want the roads closed for only two hours on a Friday morning, they...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 8, 2018, 6:07 PM

The anniversary of the scouts’ journey begins on Tuesday

In Parshat Shlach, Bamidbar 13:25 we read: “They (the scouts) returned from searching the land, at the end of 40 days.” Rashi asks: But is not the land 400x400 parsaot (a parsa is about 2.2 miles) and the average person’s traveling...

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