Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
It was the time when there was no State of Israel, before there were Arab refugees, occupied …
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7/23/08
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An unlikely reunion
by Rabbi Avi Billet
In light of last week's challenging "exchange" of soldiers Goldwasser and Regev for, among others, a murderer who does not deserve the treatment he …
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7/23/08
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Literature of the three weeks and the Holocaust
“Eim HaBanim Semeichah” as edited and translated by Rabbi Dr. Pesach Schindler
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
Midway through the …
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7/16/08
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Affecting fate
By David Seidemann
Exactly how hard should I try? When does human effort end and divine effort begin? If G-d is all-knowing and a leaf doesn’t turn over in the wind without …
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7/16/08
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Why isn’t keeping halacha good enough anymore?
By Jessie Fischbein
My 12-year-old daughter doesn't like to wear socks in the summer. When she became bas mitzvah, she began to …
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7/16/08
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An intrepid traveler from the Five Towns combines business and pleasure in a jaunt across the time zones
By Phyllis Koegel
It was Wednesday morning in Jerusalem and I was standing at the …
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7/9/08
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Killing to live
By David Seidemann
Any time. Any day. In a heartbeat I would gladly swap 400 to 500, even 600 of the enemy alive, for one or two dead Israeli soldiers. And I’d free a …
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7/9/08
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The Freifeld Legacy
Reviewed by Alan Jay Gerber
We call it yichus — the legacy of generations of the past. Rabbis, scholars, talmidei chachamim, community leaders who were ancestors to …
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7/8/08
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A spiritual high
By David Seidemann
Fame and fortune have finally arrived. I entered a restaurant on Father’s Day, wife and kids in tow, and was greeted by a maitre de of sorts.
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7/1/08
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