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The Sefer Of Seekers

1+ day, 19+ hour ago  (638+ words) The Jewish people are not new to the publication of books. In fact, we have been dubbed "the people of the book." A visit to your local'seforim'store will treat you to a wall-to-wall variety of books and'seforimspanning practically every topic…...

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Book Review: The Attached Haggadah

2+ day, 23+ hour ago  (227+ words) Review by Dr. Shlomo Pill Every year as Pesach approaches, the Jewish book market is flooded with a wave of new'Haggadahs.'The Attached Haggadah'by Rabbi Yakov Danishefsky is unique in that it becomes an immersive experience, a lived drama of…...

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Ki Tisa: Fear and the Choice of Courage

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (743+ words) By: Rabbi Moshe Taragin Moshe's delay in returning from the mountain unsettled our young nation. Had he been lost in the fire atop'Har Sinai'during the revelation? How could we survive without the leader who confronted an empire, split the sea,…...

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Happiness As Emotion And As Feeling

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (834+ words) In last week's article, I looked at our difficulties defining happiness, and how often people do not tune in to their feelings, whether involving happiness or otherwise. Recently, in fact, I worked with a patient who was unable to identify…...

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Knowing Through Negation

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (503+ words) I'm often asked'usually by people unfamiliar with my multicultural upbringing'why we chose not to send our children to Chabad yeshivos. Somewhere deep down, I must have known this question would come, because I long ago prepared an answer that still…...

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Zachor: Forgiving And Forgetting

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (855+ words) In this period of reawakening of the Jew-hatred of the ages, we must study the lessons of'ParashatZachor'anew from many angles. One of these is the tension between the values of moving on with forgiveness versus vengefully refusing to forget. A…...

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Change The Future Of Education With AMIT

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (418+ words) The Evan & Layla Green Family Foundation Gogya Building will serve as the heart of AMIT's new campus at Kfar Batya, welcoming students and educators from across its school network. The Gogya Building will also house AMIT headquarters, Visitors Center, and…...

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5tjt.com > behind-the-mask-purim-identity-and-the-deeper-meaning-of-aesthetic-change

Behind The Mask: Purim, Identity, And The Deeper Meaning Of Aesthetic Change

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (502+ words) By B. Aviva Preminger, MD, MPH, FACS By the time this article reaches you, costumes will be hanging in closets,mishloach manotlists will be drafted, and children will be debating whether they are superheroes, kings, queens, or something entirely unrecognizable this…...

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Musings Of A Shliach From Montana

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (765+ words) The Bruk family at the'hanachas tefillin Rabbi Chaim watching Menny wrapping'tefillin'for the first time Our hearts are full. This past Friday morning, the 3rd of'Adar, Chavie and I celebrated Menny's'hanochas tefillin'in our Bozeman Shul. It's a'minhag Chabad'that a twelve-year-old begins to'daven'with'tefillin'two…...

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True Leadership

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (705+ words) By R" Mordechai Young In high school, I once had a class where the teacher would reprimand me. I was innocent'I tell you! I had a classmate, Yaakov. During class he would lounge up on the windowsill. One time, as…...