The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of September 17, 2010/ 9 Tishrei 5771 Yom Kippur often has an extra, added spiritual affect on even the most marginally observant Jews. Whether it …
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9/15/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
By Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of September 10, 2010/ 2 Tishrei 5771 With the Yomim Nora’im here it is appropriate for me to suggest a book that could serve as a year-round …
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9/7/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 27, 2010/ 17 Elul 5770 Imagine: Selicot before Labor Day. This is what we will be experiencing this year.
School begins earlier this …
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8/25/10
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Issue of August 20, 2010/ 10 Elul 5770 By Alan Jay Gerber
In his classic study, “The Religious Thought of Hasidism” (Yeshiva University Press/Ktav Publishing House, 1999), Rabbi Norman Lamm …
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8/19/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of August 13, 2010/ 3 Elul 5770
Rav Avraham Yitzchak Kook and Rav Yehudah Amital were destined to serve their people in two successive …
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8/11/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 30, 2010/ 19 Av 5770
Beginning with Shabbos Chazon and until the Shabbos before Rosh Hashana every single haftorah comes from the …
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7/28/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 16, 2010/ 5 Av 5770
Every week now for the past half year there seems to be no letup in the growing quarrels between the diverse …
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7/14/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of July 9, 2010/ 27 Tammuz. 5770
It is a point of historical irony that the least popular liturgical work of out faith is the Kinot, the …
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by Alan Jay Gerber
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7/7/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
July 2, 2010/ 20 Tammuz, 5770 With the recent verdict in the Rubashkin case, trials are yet again big news among Jews. However, trials are nothing new …
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6/30/10
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The Kosher Bookworm
by Alan Jay Gerber
Issue of June 25, 2010/ 13 Tammuz, 5770 Before reading this essay please consider the following thought from Rabbi Abraham Kon from his work, “Siach …
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6/23/10
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