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The radical transition from the Yom Kippur solemnity to the Simchat Torah revelry can be dizzying, but it makes sense. There is a method to the madness.

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Vayechi: True Guardians

January 2, 2009 – 4:57 am | Comments Off on Vayechi: True Guardians4,612 views
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Protect or Destroy
Listening to media reports about Gaza and Hamas, I wondered how a terror group came to be viewed as a legitimate government. When did we start treating those who blow themselves up on buses and lob rockets into kindergartens as soldiers in a legitimate army? How did the …

Miketz: From Joseph to Joseph

November 26, 2006 – 2:52 am | Comments Off on Miketz: From Joseph to Joseph3,679 views
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This essay was written shortly after Joe Lieberman was rejected by the Democratic Party and went on to win his senatorial seat in the great State of Connecticut as an independent. At that time, Lieberman held the swing vote in the Senate and because of his reputation for voting his …

Vayetze: Modern Antisemitism

December 4, 2005 – 3:29 am | Comments Off on Vayetze: Modern Antisemitism5,671 views
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Discrimination
I recently entered a shoe repair shop and asked for a quote on a minor repair job. I was surprised by the relatively high quote and explained that I had never been quoted so steep a price. The proprietor asked if I was Jewish. When I asked him to explain …

Pekudei: Was Iraq Freed?

November 4, 2005 – 2:13 am | Comments Off on Pekudei: Was Iraq Freed?3,370 views
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This essay was written in 2005, when the US led effort to bring democracy to Iraq was still in its infancy.
Democracy in Iraq
The international media has subjected the US-led coalition that liberated Iraq and established a democratic government, to intense scrutiny and even criticism.

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Sh’lach L’chah : Despite All Odds

June 21, 2005 – 5:28 am | Comments Off on Sh’lach L’chah : Despite All Odds3,369 views
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Communicating Truths
In May of 1967, an Egyptian parliamentary delegation visiting Moscow was told that Israel had concentrated its army on the Syrian border and that an imminent Israeli invasion of Syria should be expected.

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Yitro : A Protest of Orange Stars

January 29, 2005 – 5:51 am | Comments Off on Yitro : A Protest of Orange Stars3,972 views
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A Controversial Decision
The Orange Revolution, a campaign orchestrated in 2005 by Jews in Israel to protest the forced expulsion of Jews from Gaza, advised Jews to wear orange stars on their arm sleeves as a duel symbol of solidarity with the Jewish communities of Gaza and of protest against the …