48 Tries – Excerpts from My Rosh Hashanah Morning Sermon I want to start this Rosh Hashanah morning by introducing us to someone we’ve almost certainly never heard of: the late Maxcy Filier. Unless we were a legal insider in Los Angeles a few…
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’48 Tries’
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The Blogs: The Danger of a Peace Illusion with Syria | Elazar Gabay
There have been growing reports and calls for a “peace” agreement or “non-aggression pact” with Syria. The Trump administration has been in talks with Al-Sharaa, who has met with Trump, Rubio, and also just gave a speech at the…
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The Blogs: Everything & Nothing: Ayin As The Cosmic Web | Yael Chaya Miriam Gray
To me, these images fairly scream, “Let us create man in our image, after our likeness” (Bereishis 1:26-28).
The top illustration of the above meme shows a particular sector of a cosmic map of the large-scale structure of the universe,…
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The Blogs: How Israel Shattered Hezbollah’s Terror Empire | Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez
Israel has done what the world thought impossible: it has broken Hezbollah. Since the 34-day war of 2006, the UN’s demand that the terror militia disarm was treated as a joke. But in the latest campaign, Israel’s creativity and firepower…
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The Blogs: So let the world rage. Let the UN pass its resolutions. Let the mobs chant | Paul Mendlowitz
On elite campuses, professors and students chant for the destruction of Israel, cloaking genocidal hatred in the language of “justice” and “liberation.”. Anti-Zionism is Claimed To be different than antisemitism even by twisted Jews.
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The Blogs: Public Transit Needs Public Decency | Talia Avrahami
From Tel Aviv buses to the New York subway, we must ask: do our shared spaces reflect our shared values?
One morning on the A train in Manhattan, my daughter and I sat side by side. She was dressed in a jumper and tights, holding her siddur,…
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The Blogs: Have Hollywood Elites Created a New Blacklist? | Abe Gurko
Red Scare, Blue Scare, Let’s Call the Whole Thing Off
The entertainment community is reliving a moment eerily reminiscent of one of its darkest chapters — the McCarthy era. Back then, careers were destroyed as boycotts, blacklists, and…
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The Blogs: Stand Up: Jewish Moral Imperative and the Chinese Medicine of Courage | Annette Poizner
In times of crisis, the Jewish people have always drawn strength from the vision of our ancestors. Moses’ leadership does not begin with thunder at Sinai or with miracles in Egypt. It begins with a man alone, watching an act of violence and…
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The Blogs: The prime meaning of Gedaliah’s fast in our days | Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden
The days on the Jewish Calendar are recreations of the past’s lessons and attempts to continue on the proper path toward the future.
Two millennia ago, Jews killed the Jewish governor Gedaliah. Every year around this time, we commemorate…
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The Blogs: The Hidden Witness (Vayelech) | Ben-Tzion Spitz
“Words fly away, written ones remain.” (“Verba volant, scripta manent.”) — Latin proverb
Every covenant needs a witness. When two people make a promise, they call others to stand by and testify that the agreement was made. Words…
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