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Shabbat Shalom Articles August 13, 2008A Tu b’Av Wedding: “The Daughters of Israel would come outside…” Yehoshua Halevi Tu B'Av, the 15th Day of Av, is both an ancient and modern holiday...Today, it has become... August 13, 2008Smart or Lazy? Susan Schwartz Depending on how you look at it, I am either very smart or very lazy. Facing the wedding of my fifth child and the concomitant entertaining that comes with such an occasion...I was faced with a choice... August 07, 2008Remembering the Destruction Ann Goldberg The Three Weeks between the 17th of Tamuz and the 9th of Av are a time of special mourning for the Jewish people, but it's not always possible to conjure up in your heart this real feeling of sorrow when you're privileged to live in modern, thriving Jerusalem... August 07, 2008As the City Burned Rabbi Leiby Burnham The pounding in Shlomo’s head wouldn’t stop, but it was easily drowned out by the pain in his heart. The city lay in flaming ruins; human corpses were lying all around him, rotting in the searing midday sun. He hadn’t eaten anything in four days, yet he knew he must go on... August 07, 2008Beneath The Bureau Bassi Gruen Sometimes, when she lay in bed exhausted, but wide awake with worry, when her mind would race thinking about the latest electricity bill, the late camp payment, the roofer who charged so much but did nothing, she’d look over at her husband, tranquilly asleep, and feel a sense of rage... August 06, 2008The Temple Mount is in Our Hands? Adina Hershberg Recently I went to visit the Temple Mount (consult with your rabbi before making this decision). Har HaBayit is in our hands, yet I was not allowed to bring any prayer books on my visit and was told to speak in English. I was not allowed to pray while I was there. All males were requested to come with baseball hats and tzitzit tucked in, to enable easier entry... July 31, 2008From Bear Stearns To Bava Metzia Andrew Neff The title of this article is “From Bear Stearns to Bava Metzia” but it’s really about some life lessons I’ve picked up over the last few months since my company – that I was with for 20 years and that was in business for 86 years – disappeared in the midst of a financial crisis and panic – making me a “Bear Stearns refugee” but more importantly a “kollel boy”. July 31, 2008The Saddest Noise, the Sweetest Noise Sarah Shapiro The 19th century poet Emily Dickinson penned these lines in the early-American, churchgoing town of Amherst, Massachusetts --surely a time and place as far away as one can get from the Middle East, and from the 21st century’s Jewish State. But every year as summer approaches, those words have come to life again in the mind of this Jerusalemite... |
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