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As this story illustrates, there is a huge difference between spending time with your children and offering them quality time.

Rebbetzin Jungreis, a”h, sharing a memory of international intrigue, delays challenges, and ultimately, a magnificent and inspiring Shabbat.

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You have to give Silver credit. He is standing up to the prosecution where others immediately folded like a house of cards.

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In denying a request from an AgriProcessors employee that she recuse herself from his criminal case, Judge Reade did not disclose to him or to Rubashkin’s trial lawyers that she had participated in the planning of the raid.

We must never forget that when Aaron was left to lead, the people made a golden calf. But never forget that Moses needed an Aaron to hold the people together. In short, leadership is the capacity to hold together different temperaments, conflicting voices and clashing values.

My husband enjoys cooking when he is home and my kids have been cooking and baking since the age of four.

'A Tree Grows in Sinai'--and the Jewish Nation is built.

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In a symbolic move, Hall of Fame pitcher Sandy Koufax was the last player chosen in the draft.

I had no control over what happened to me that day, but I do have control over how I live my life going forward.

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It never used to bother me; that is, until recently. Somehow, over the years, Chanukah has come to be celebrated as a children’s holiday.

Parshat Shelach begins and ends with seeing. It opens with the meraglim and closes with the commandment to look at tzizis. The lesson of the two? That it is not enough to simply look. We must also SEE.

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Parenting--and grandparenting--pearls from Rabbi YY Rubenstein.

Anyone who appreciates a mix of football, unique commercials, and Jewish music will be thrilled with our KHS 2018 presentation.

I wanted to try and begin to understand the unfathomable: How did such evil come about?

Oh, to live a life of study and prayer…Oh, how un-Jewish. Parshat Tzav opens with a discussion of 2 mitzvot that, instruct the kohanim to, basically, “take out the trash.”

But it’s not just the siddur. All books in Israeli schools are to be revered…. and covered.

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Avraham’s message to Eliezer was: You are my CEO. I trust you with my possessions and my material wealth, with the blessings of this world – but not with my spiritual future or the spiritual future of my progeny. That is why he made Eliezer take the oath.

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After living as slaves for so many years, we could now be transformed into avdei Hashem - Hashem's slaves.

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Rabi Yochanan immediately dismounted from the mule, wrapped himself in his tallis and sat down on a stone beneath an olive tree.