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Why We Learn Gemara
Why We Learn Gemara
At the 1994 annual awards dinner given by the American Association for Forensic Science, AAFS president, Don Harper Mills, astounded his audience in San Diego with the legal complications of a...
Aug 16, 2007
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
The Numbers Man
The Numbers Man
“I’m a numbers man,” he said the first time I met him, “Always have been, always will be. I live by the numbers. If you want to know what I think...
Aug 8, 2007
By Joyce Schur
Donation and Reward
Donation and Reward
A Lesson For the Children – A large crowd filled the small “Har Tzvi” Synagogue in the Geula section of Jerusalem. The neighborhood and the population grew steadily, and many of...
Aug 8, 2007
By Rabbi Yikhat Rozen
The Colors of Black and White: A Jewish Woman’s Journey to Christianity and Back
The Colors of Black and White: A Jewish Woman’s...
Top 20 Billboard recording artist Dana Mase’s career spanning collection – The Colors of Black and White (Water Records/UFO Music) was recently released and will be available in stores in the...
Aug 2, 2007
By Dana Mase
Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea
Parashat Va’etchanan: My Prayer and Plea
Parashat Va’etchanan and Erev Tisha B’Av 5767 I am writing this on the eighth of Av, after descending from two hours on Har Habayit – the Temple Mount, following immersing in...
Jul 26, 2007
By Rabbi Nachman Kahana
Painless History Lessons
Painless History Lessons
History is one of those subjects students distaste—dry, monotonous, meaningless dates and places, just the thing that makes school so tedious. Yet recently the students of the Sussia Ecological High School...
Jul 19, 2007
By Leah Abramowitz
An Instantaneous Verdict
An Instantaneous Verdict
Holy and Secular – The King was weary, frustrated, and humiliated. His beloved son had started a revolution against him. Now he was forced to flee from the palace in Jerusalem....
Jul 12, 2007
By Rabbi Amichai Gordin
Fiery Speeches
Fiery Speeches
The basic history is true; embellishments have been made for your reading pleasure. Two thousand years ago, deep in the Lanzhou Province of China, a crew of twelve men tended the...
Jul 11, 2007
By Rabbi Leiby Burnham
The Meaning of Survivorship
The Meaning of Survivorship
Let me set the scene. I was recently at a survivor breakfast for Susan G. Komen for the Cure’s national affiliate conference. All the women in the room were breast cancer...
Jul 10, 2007
By Miriam S. May
Make Noise
Make Noise
written June 20, 2007 There comes a moment in every one’s life when time stands still… I have always been told about moments where peoples lives “flash before their eyes” and...
Jul 5, 2007
By Gila Kanal

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