Posted on: July 29th, 2016

Those in the Orthodox world who demean the crowning event of modern Jewish life– the reestablishment of Israel as a Jewish homeland – must ask themselves: Am I like Pinchas? Is my zealousness true?

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Posted on: July 29th, 2016

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Posted on: July 29th, 2016

So what is Israel? A state with an army? Or an army with a state?

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Posted on: July 28th, 2016

Being examined by a doctor was causing his patients to be nervous, and that was contributing to the rise in their blood pressure.

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

Question: I am very appreciative and, if I might add, flattered that you answer and publish many of my questions. Due to your superior knowledge, I am always confident when I send in a question that I will receive a proper response. I wonder if you could address whether one should say Birkat HaGomel after flying even though flying is statistically safer than driving. Also, do women say HaGomel as well or only men? Menachem

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

A Tale Of Two Cities ‘The Destructive Force Does Not Distinguish Between Good And Evil’ (Bava Kamma 60a)

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

According to Rav Moshe Feinstein, the First Period commences on the morning of the Seventeenth of Tammuz rather than the night following the Sixteenth of Tammuz.

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

Pinchas fulfilled the halacha of kana’im pogim bo whereby a kana’i (zealot) is granted permission to kill people performing specific aveiros.

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Posted on: July 28th, 2016

Somehow, though I loved being in Israel, I didn’t feel that way at all.

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

"Could you please take my wallet?" Menachem asked. "I have two thousand cash in it. Make sure to put it in the safe."

Posted on: July 28th, 2016

We want our children to have self-esteem. Can there be a greater generator of self-esteem in children than their knowing they were chosen to be the guarantors of the Torah?

Posted on: July 27th, 2016

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

Being anti-prejudice should not require blindness to facts or tolerance of abhorrent happenstances.

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

At bottom, J Street believes the Palestinians are fundamentally right in asserting entitlement to most of the land Israel conquered in 1967; that their cause is therefore a just one; and that they will not and cannot be expected to abandon their claims in any significant way.

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

What was particularly intriguing was a somewhat garbled discussion about using Mr. Sanders’s faith – or lack thereof – to dilute support for him.

Posted on: July 27th, 2016

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

I’m not arguing against common ancestry or some form of descent with modification. What I’m saying is that accidental processes cannot possibly have invented these things.

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

“Our party has a long tradition of being pro-Israel, and being pro-Israel doesn’t mean we agree on everything, but we’re friends, we’re allies, we’re partners and to the extent we have disagreements we try to work them out productively,” Kaine said.

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Posted on: July 27th, 2016

The discovery ultimately established the major defense mechanism in innate immunity, for which he won his Nobel Prize.