Speaking from the heart
By David Seidemann
Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
I was watching at 6:47 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 27 when history was made. I remember watching JFK’s funeral on …
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9/5/08
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Notes from a working mom
By Ayala Cohen
Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
You can hear profanity everywhere these days: in the office, at the supermarket, on the train. The other day I heard a …
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9/5/08
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Thanks all the same, but no, I’d prefer my next party not be “the talk of the town.”
The advertisement promising town-wide …
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By Rabbi Avi Shafran
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9/5/08
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In My View
By Howard Kopel
Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said in a rather scornful tone, “it means what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.” …
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9/5/08
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Issue of Sept. 5, 2008
What about single dads?
To the Editor:
As a once-a-long-time-ago single parent, a then, and now, devoted father, I take umbrage at the failure of Rabbi and …
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9/5/08
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The Haftarot of our lives
A review of how our Haftarot are treated, by Dr. Michael Fishbane
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 29, 2008
A few weeks ago The New York Times …
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8/29/08
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Issue of August 29, 2008
Not in the mob
To the Editor:
I found the article ‘Congregation Beis Ephraim Yitzchok welcomes new rav’ (August 22, 2008) to be offensive, insulting and …
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8/29/08
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From the other side of the bench
By David Seidemann
Issue of August 29, 2008
The melodies are haunting — evoking feelings first experienced in the Holy Temple thousands of years ago. …
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8/29/08
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Anti-Israel diatribes spring from Iran’s leaders like fleas from a dog, but a recent Iranian Parliament statement stood apart, …
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By Rabbi Avi Shafran
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8/29/08
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Debunking myths about Orthodoxy
By Allison Josephs
Issue of August 22, 2008
Old-fashioned, extreme, closed-minded, sexist, dirty and ignorant. These are some of the words that used to …
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8/21/08
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