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I grew up in the shadow of the Six-Day War. The impossible yardstick of this war measured every subsequent war in Israel. It redefined the term blitzkrieg as Israel rebuffed a three-nation attack and came away with land from each of them.
All this changed when we woke up on Friday, …

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Sir Martin Gilbert

Submitted by on April 1, 2012 – 8:14 pmNo Comment | 10,088 views

I am very glad to give this endorsement to Rabbi Lazer  Gurkow, whom I have known for more than four years,  and to whose sermons it is always a delight to listen.  Rabbi Gurkow draws out, in each Dvar Torah, a  fascinating, wide ranging and profound perspective that  never fails to stimulate thought, in the most constructive and  spiritually uplifting way.