28 May The Original Amen Party

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I. AMEN’S LIMITED IMPACT In the mid-1500’s, a Rabbi Yisrael in Adrianople initiated a new synagogue practice. On arrival in shul in early morning, a group of men would alternate reciting...

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28 May A Yid in Politics An Exclusive Q & A with Sen. Joe Lieberman

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Hon. Joseph Lieberman was a U.S. senator from Connecticut for twenty-four years. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland Security and Governmental...

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28 May Torah from Israel: Yom Yerushalayim Jerusalem – The City of Magnets

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The Book of Breishit portrays three vastly different visits to Yerushalayim. Avraham first encounters this city after intervening in a raging world war. Years later, an acquiescent Avraham and his...

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28 May Parashat Behukotai – The Blessing Among the Curses

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We read in Parashat Behukotai the Torah’s description of the dreadful curses which G-d threatens to send upon us if we disobey His commands. Toward the end of this section,...

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28 May Yerushalayim as the Ir Meluchah

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The Rambam (Hilchos Melachim 1:10) rules that only a king of malchus Beis Dovid has the right to use Yerushalayim as his capital and establish his government offices there. This...

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28 May What Not to Say When There Are No Words

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When people in our lives are struggling or suffering, we desperately want to help but often are at a loss for what to say or what to do. In her deeply...

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28 May The Birth of Hope (Bechukotai)

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This week we read the Tochecha, the terrifying curses warning of what would happen to Israel if it betrayed its Divine mission. We read a prophecy of history gone wrong....

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28 May Changing the Dynamic in the War Against the Yeitzer Hara

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One of the major goals of life is to achieve many victories against the Yeitzer Hara, the Evil Inclination. The thinking Jew knows that one of his or her greatest...

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28 May Neviim and Mitzvos

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The Torah tells us in Vayikra, Perek Chof Zayin, posuk lamed daled that these are the mitzvos that Moshe commanded Bnei Yisroel on Har Sinai. The Gemara in Shabbos, daf...

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28 May The Fighter Still Remains Are You Still the Chosen People?

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THE BLIND GOLFER Charlie Boswell was a great athlete who became blind during World War II while rescuing his friend from a tank that was under fire. When he returned...

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