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ניסים (Nisim)( Hebrew word for Miracles) Can Happen!
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The Blogs: Lech Lecha: Three Engines of Destiny | Kenneth Brander
The connection between this week’s haftara and the parsha is not immediately obvious. The haftara, from the Book of Yeshayahu and focused on a prophecy of love and encouragement, does contain one passing mention of the patriarch Avraham –…
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Prominent Orthodox politician swaps endorsement of Republican for Cuomo as NYC mayoral election nears
Curtis Sliwa has long pointed to Dov Hikind, a former New York state assemblyman who represented Jewish neighborhoods in Brooklyn for more than three decades, as one of strongest allies within the New York Jewish…
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Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum joins Mamdani rally with progressive leaders in Queens
This piece first ran as part of The Countdown, our daily newsletter rounding up all the developments in the New York City mayor’s race. Sign up here to get it in your inbox. There are 8 days to the election.
Rabbi Sharon Kleinbaum, a longtime…
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Anyone saying Jews face a simple choice in the NYC mayoral election is not paying attention
As a New York City voter, I’m preparing to cast my ballot in the upcoming mayoral election. But as a congregational rabbi and now the head of the largest Jewish movement in North America, I’ve never told congregants…
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The Blogs: To sign or not to sign: Anti-Mamdani letter is a challenge for rabbis | Shira Koch Epstein
JTA — In recent days, nearly 1,000 rabbis have signed “A Rabbinic Call to Action: Defending the Jewish Future.” The letter, written in response to rising anti-Zionism and the rhetoric of political figures like New York City mayoral…
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The Blogs: Until Itay and the other remaining hostages come home | Ruby Chen
Every day, my family waits impatiently for the worst phone call of our lives with regard to the fate of our son, Itay, and, in a cruel twist of irony, every day that we don’t get that call, we are disappointed.
That is the agonizing reality…
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The Blogs: Time to talk about the West Bank, or rather, Judea and Samaria | Yaakov Chaliotis
The area internationally known as the “West Bank,” but which Israelis prefer to call by its biblical name “Judea and Samaria,” is not merely a geographical territory. It is the core of the Jewish historical homeland, the place where…
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The Blogs: Allah’s 99 Names and YHVH’s One Silent Name | Allen S. Maller
The 176 names of Greek Gods and Goddess, and the 162 individual gods listed in the Egyptian pantheon of gods are actually few. Even the list of 249 Hindu Gods and Goddess names listed in the Hindu pantheon of gods and spirits is slender,…
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The Blogs: A Strange Yom Kippur on the Gaza Border | Jeremy M Staiman
This is the story of one soldier — my son Arky — whose experiences on his base near the Gaza border this past Yom Kippur were too vivid and unusual to go unrecorded.
I write them down here, so that the details — the moments that were so…
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