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The Yishai Fleisher Show
The Golden Bull DowntownWhy would anyone worship a golden calf? Why would anyone put up a golden bull in downtown Manhattan? Rav Mike Feuer joins Rabbi Yishai to stare down the snarling idolatry and take a holy peek at the beaming face of Moses as he comes down with the two tablets of God's Law. Then, Malkah Fleisher on French antisemitism and baking a giant Haman's Ear!
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Blogs
Absurdity of Land SwapsHeadline Vic Rosenthal The idea of swaps ought to be unacceptable to Israel, because it presupposes Arab ownership of all of Judea and Samaria. Why should Israel be required to compensate the Palestinians for taking its own land?
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Beauty In The Service Of God Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks The idea that one might worship “the work of men’s hands” was anathema to biblical faith. More generally, Judaism is a culture of the ear, not the eye. As a religion of the invisible God, it attaches sanctity to words heard, rather than objects seen. Religious art is never “art for art’s sake.” Unlike secular art, it points to something beyond itself.
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Torah From A TV Anchor Sivan Rahav-Meir “The boy from Russia who was not accepted to study physics because he was a Jew is now part of a team that is sending off a spacecraft containing a disk with the entire Hebrew Bible scanned onto it and an Israeli flag.”
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Parshat Vayakheil Rabbi Dr. David Hertzberg It is not enough to assemble one's people in one place. There must be a unifying mission.
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Vayakhel: The End of Innocence, the Beginning of Life Rabbi Dr. Gidon Rothstein The Mishkan we eventually had could have become the place where the Jews connected with Hashem more fully or strongly even than at Sinai, perhaps. After the sin of the Golden Calf, it could never be the place of innocent joy it was meant to be.
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The Taxi Minyan Rebbetzin Miriam Gross That night a memorable prayer rose to Heaven and went straight to the Throne of Glory. It was offered by an unusual gathering, a minyan of Jews that one doesn't see every day.
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Murder Is Now Legal in America Rabbi Raphael Fuchs Aren’t these basic common-sense laws that every civilization abides by? Why would anyone not accept the rule of law that banned such evil practices?
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You Didn’t Need To Dress That Fancy Rabbi Meir Orlian The default assumption is that the other children allow this expense. However, they can protest, and are entitled to prohibit him from dressing henceforth at their expense.
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Lights In The Corridor Adena Hershberg If I had had the chutzpah which I now possess, I would have loudly protested and demanded equal rights. Since I was a 15-year-old, well behaved student I obeyed him.
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Daf Yomi Rabbi Yaakov Klass Stricter Than A Prohibition ‘We Rely on a Gentile…’ (Chullin 97a)
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Everybody Wins Rabbi Efrem Goldberg Real faith means taking God to work with us and feeling not only His presence everywhere we go, but His partnership and investment in us and in our success.
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