By now everyone has probably heard about Governor Kristi Noen and how she personally shot her dog, Cricket. Americans were, of course, horrified. And justifiably

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 In Parshat Behar, it is written that in Israel, the farmers need to let their land have a Shabbat every seven years (Shemita) and after

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For six years now I have been answering the halachic queries of Orthodox Jews, and there is one thing that I can state beyond a