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Mr. Stein notified all the participants and called Mr. Turk. Our flight was delayed, he said. We will have to reschedule the bus for 5 p.m.

So strictly speaking, you don’t need to buy toothpaste or lipstick that has a kasher l’Pesach hechser, but if you can get one with it, why not?

Hemingway’s antipathy to Eisenstaedt may well have been attributable to his general contempt for Jews.

We studied his seforim together, we listened to famous cantorial masters and we spoke of his illustrious yichus, his pedigree, dating back to the famous commentator, Rashi.

Israel annually issues a set of “Moadim L’Simcha” stamps commemorating the Jewish New Year, which are always among my favorites, but it also periodically issues stamps commemorating the other Jewish holidays, including Purim.

A livid Truman screamed at him for violating his specific instruction never to even mention the word “Palestine.”

Will I ever be able to be the mother this little girl desperately needs?

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Whoever is running PR for the Palestinians really understands branding. How else to explain why the word “occupation” applies to them exclusively? In the end, branding won’t get them anywhere.

Each one of us has his own role and path - so there is no reason to be jealous of another person.

Was their recent commitment strong enough to prevail against this dramatic test?

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Why should unintentional sins require atonement at all? What guilt is involved? Had the offender known he would not have done what he did. Why then does he have to undergo a process of atonement?

A true story of unfathomable pain exceeded only by the greatness of this tzaddikah, a haredi Yemenite orphan girl sent to a leper hospice and befriended by R’ Aryeh Levine (zt”l) the Yerushalmi tzaddik

She doesn't want to talk about how she suffered in the Holocaust; she wants to tell me of her heroic act.

A Jew grows and lives differently here in Israel. Anyone who really wants to be here will do fine.

Entitlements ‘Not Returned To His Former Prominence’ (Makkos 12a)

I love my crockpot.

So, Mom, how are you keeping yourself busy now that we've all left home?

Among other evidence, researchers have uncovered any number of official records, including passports and issued passes that conform Pulitzer’s mother was a Hungarian-born Jew.

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Our Turn ‘A Gentile Nullifies His Idolatrous Relic’ (Avodah Zarah 52b)

Some will ask: why bother? Of what use are these conferences? Personally, I say thank God that at least the Europeans are having these conversations. The issue is being addressed.

Law Of Averages ‘Catacombs Are Four Cubits Long’ (Bava Basra 100b)

Harel specializes in oil paints, etching, wood-cut, silk-print and lithography. He also specializes in details that surprise.

Each montage is profoundly different, reflecting the vastly distinctive experiences of the Jewish people.

The halacha is that first C must repay the two hundred dinarim that are not in dispute.

The agent, watching his behavior, thought to himself, “Could this man, who appears so poor, have so much oil to sell? Surely the people in town were making fun of me.”

An Idolatrous Eruv ‘Wood From An Asheirah Tree’ (Avodah Zarah 49b)