February 2012
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Five Ideas I Hope to Pass On to My Children
by Emuna Braverman Here’s my list. What’s yours?
1. There is one God and one power.
This idea is at the root of all others. Without this idea, the world is hard and cold and random. With it, there is hope and meaning and purpose. There is loving and giving and caring. It is the source of their recognition that there are moral choices to be made and their clarity on how to make them. This...
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“In advance of a public Talmudic address, Reb Yisroel Salanter posted a list of a...”
– http://www.tzemachdovid.org/gedolim/jo/tprofile/rsalanter.html
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“Do the following once a day. (if this is too much, maybe do one/day)
1. Spend...”
– Rav Avigdor Miller zt’l
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A Quebec Jew
by Steve McDonald From Catholic Bloc Québécois MP to staunch Jewish activist.
By changing religion, was I reneging on part of my identity? Or was I adding to it? How were my family and my friends going to see me? Were they going to see me as “the Jew”?
How was my father, a deeply religious and practicing Catholic, going to react? My head was reeling as I thought of my mother, my sister, my...
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“After the assassination of Tsar Alexander II of Russia, a government official in...”
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Those Who Can, Teach
by Michael Steinberg I’m not a rabbi, I never studied in yeshiva, and there’s so much I don’t know. So why am I teaching Torah?
I’m almost 60 and I just started teaching Torah. I never expected to do this – but now I see that I can. In fact, I think I must. Let me explain.
I did not start out on the path of Torah. Growing up in Queens in the 1950s, my upbringing was secular: no God, no shul,...