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The Longest Mesechta? ‘We Shall Return To You…’ (Bava Basra 176b)

As your family came from France, it is likely that they were transported to Auschwitz and murdered there, he told us.

When does the obligation of mitzvah lekayem divrei ha’met apply, and how could it have improved Jill’s position?

It should, therefore, be deemed insufficient to oblige the defendant to take the Shevuat Heiset oath of denial.

The Gemara says that anyone who mourns the churban will merit seeing the nechama.

How can we effectively treat chronic pain, without putting the lives, souls, and potential of those suffering from it at risk in the process?

Mr. Gefen approached Rabbi Dayan and related the story. Can I take from the store what I deserve? asked Mr. Gefen.

I followed Evers religiously and so I thought it was an act of sacrilege that Bunning wore Evers's uniform number while with the Tigers.

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Roland and the NYU team that accompanied him trained the surgeons at Shaare Zedek Medical Center to do this procedure well so that next time they can operate autonomously.

The leading fighter for Jewish civil rights in Germany, he used his respect and renown to assist individual Jews and entire communities in disputes with the German authorities and he facilitated the revocation of many anti-Semitic laws.

There is no natural demand for an alternative, mixed space at the Western Wall – from American Jews, much less Israelis. Contrary to the common narrative, it is creating such a space that would divide our nation.

“Your problem,” I said to to the Arab MK, “is that the Israeli Left has convinced you that this is not a Jewish state, but rather a state of all its citizens. And then in your naiveté, you were convinced that this is a state with no identity..."

Non-Orthodox denominations seem to have declared war on the status quo at a suspiciously convenient moment, their uproar coming at a time of declining identification with Judaism and Israel throughout their ranks.

To Jew-haters, any inconsistency is permissible. What makes this hard for many Jews to understand is that it doesn’t conform to their worldview, in which enemies are on the right and allies are on the left.

It seems the Resistance is rooted in the notion that Mr. Trump is hopelessly out of sync with American values and American voters.

But there is another crucial element in this episode that must also be noted.

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