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Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and an internationally recognized educator, religious leader, lecturer, and author of 19 highly acclaimed books with combined sales of over a half million copies. His newest book, “Redemption, Then and Now” (a Passover Haggadah with commentaries and essays) is presently available on Amazon and in Judaica bookstores.
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Don't confuse racism with hard-earned excellence.
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Bigotry is unacceptable, except, it seems, when it comes to knocking men.
The High Holy days represent the time when we need to mentally create a bucket list not of places we haven’t yet been but of good deeds we haven’t yet done.
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Leading Muslim clerics condemned the attack in Nice, calling for a unified effort against extremism because, as they piously exclaim, they are opposed to extremism in any form-except against Jews
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