December 23, 2024

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Serving God by Serving Country

My youngest child, Elie, (20) was recently inducted into the IDF. Elie is now doing basic training in an elite combat unit of the paratroopers

To Speak or Not to Speak

A controversial topic in the news is whether or not Prime Minister Netanyahu should give his planned speech to Congress. It is important to first

Fifty Shades of Red

In his book first published in 1989, Doesn’t Anyone Blush Anymore, Rabbi Manis Friedman bemoans the loss of modesty and decency in society, and describes

Who Is A Jew? What Does It Mean?

Editor’s Note: This op-ed comes from a former member of a “secret” Facebook page for descendants of Holocaust survivors, including many living in the area

Da’as Torah or Advice?

Many religious Jews today ask rabbis life questions—whom to marry, where to live, what career path to follow—and take their answers as authoritative rulings. In

Doubting Our Way to a Higher Faith

David Hume and Samuel Johnson were two of the greatest exemplars of 18th Century Enlightenment. Hume, the preeminent thinker of the Scottish Enlightenment, altered the

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