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Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef

An Implacable Foe ‘Therefore Those Who Speak In Parables Say…’ (Bava Basra 78b)

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The Civil War was a conventional war with large massed armies arrayed against each other in set battles. These battles were more or less governed by accepted rules of war.

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With his combination of yeshiva and secular education, he was the ideal person to articulate Orthodox Judaism to a generation of Upper West Side, American-born men and women eager to accommodate Judaism with American culture and values.

Newt Gingrich, the former speaker of the House of Representatives who has pulled ahead of Mitt Romney in recent polls in the race for the Republican presidential nomination, created a firestorm late last week with his comments about the Palestinians.

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As part of a regular diet, they add many nutrients, including lycopene and lots of flavor.

When Shammai heard these words he was deeply hurt and was sure that the man had come only to offend and mock him.

The only inkling I had that something was amiss was that sometimes when I would greet she responds and other times she doesn't.

Most animals are born once. But birds are born twice. First, the egg is laid by the mother. But where is the baby? Still inside the egg.

While Pittsburgh embraced Greenberg, Robinson had a more mixed reception in Brooklyn. The borough’s Jewish fans welcomed him, as did most of the rest of the Ebbets Field faithful.

Today, fifty years and six million (!) people later, Israel is truly a different world.

There was once a scalding hot bath that no one could enter. Along came one foolish individual who jumped in. Although he was immediately burned, he cooled off the bath for others.

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Rabbi Klein delivered his sermons in such a high classical German that a group of his congregants had to repeatedly ask him to speak so he could be understood.

Plants calm you, help you concentrate, help you breathe better, they even help with the creative process.

Question: When reciting a berachah in English, does a person fulfill his obligation if he says “Hashem” instead of “L-rd” or “G-d”? Yosef

Feiglin on some of Israel's hot-button topics

The observant Jewish community is calling on state lawmakers to allow parents the right to choose where to educate their children.

Parshas Zachor follows, as Amalek will resurface before the geula, reminding us that we must rid ourselves of wrongdoing and teshuvah.

It is important to note that Mr. Pollard was cut no slack along his journey to freedom.

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