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What if we approached our fellow person in distress with the same amount of thought and consideration? What if we took time to think about the recommended guidelines instead of just saying or doing what popped into our minds?

Roosevelt visited Israel four times, the first in 1952, and the last eight months before her death in 1962... In many letters to her friends and in her newspaper columns, she frequently sang the praises of the extraordinary beauty of the Israeli landscape, and she often lauded Israel’s educational institutions and healthcare facilities.

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He steered refugees to interviewers, found hiding places, delivered messages, and made deals with Marseille gangsters, but perhaps his most interesting contribution was marrying six different Jewish refugees so they could obtain American visas.

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π appears not only in geometry, but in number theory, algebra, analysis, statistics, and other mathematical disciplines. In physics, π is truly ubiquitous.

Best known for his publication of many works of the Vilna Gaon, he was also the first to publish a Jewish edition of the Bible that was published by religious Jews and for religious Jews in Eretz Yisrael.

An avid and unapologetic eugenicist, Shaw suggested that the Nazis “make it punishable incest for a Jew to marry anyone but an Aryan.”

In America, Kissinger played down his Jewish roots and sought to assimilate. When he was sworn in as the first Jewish Secretary of State, he took his oath on Shabbat – his observant elderly parents were therefore forced to walk to the swearing-in ceremony – and on a Christian bible.

While the Malbim's fame rests on his commentary on the Bible, he was first and foremost a posek and defender of halacha against the many attacks it was facing from the Reform in his era.

Rabbi Dickman had great hopes for his Kuzari Shlishi, believing it would help defeat the assimilation and apathy of Jews of his day.

In 1886, Berliner commenced work on what would become the gramophone, the recording and reproduction of sound by means of disc records.

One custom that gained popularity during this time was the practice of saying additional prayers and selihot in the early mornings.

We see this as our role as Israel’s national EMS organization and as part of our ongoing activities in our global fight against Covid.

The fleeting aspect of fame might be much more than an average observation. It reflects a healthier and more positive perspective of the idea of fame.

Other than the main subject of this sefer – brilliant commentary on the Mishneh Torah of Maimonides – the volume's pages were filled by the author with various other content, which I found most fascinating.

Upon its release, critics acclaimed and celebrated the Biblical Prologue, but they were generally highly critical of the Story section of the film, which was broadly characterized as clichéd in both its narrative and characterizations.

There are more yeshivot and students learning Torah here than in the rest of the world combined.

Language academics created an entire discipline – phonoaesthetics – to figure out what makes a word pleasant-sounding. Idyllic appears on that list, and so does mellifluous and cellar door. Shvitz doesn’t.

While the student body at many of the major American yeshivas was slowly growing in the post-war period, the Selective Service draft resulted in a great portion of the students continuing their studies indefinitely to avoid the draft.

He said that in the Death March toward the end of the war, he drank his urine, again and again, to survive.

The point about accuracy warrants elaboration. All VITA/TCE volunteers who prepare returns must pass tax-law training that meets or exceeds IRS standards.

For almost half a century, there has been unremitting pressure on Israel – including, sadly, from the United States under certain administrations – to return the Golan to Syria.

We now know that we have a captive audience who is listening and we have to drive that listening into action.

You can feel scared and excited, regretful and inspired to do better, broken but hopeful.

There are the three mitzvot that are designated as signs, milah, Shabbos and tefillin, which serve as constant reminders of our unique relationship with Hashem via our bodies, our actions and our thoughts.

David Ben Gurion famously remarked that In Israel, in order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

You are not in charge! You may think you are, but you are not! He accuses.

They are trying to see me, to find out if I am a Pole from Miedzyrzec. If an authentic Pole, then they are afraid of me, I could denounce them as Jewish. If I am a Jewish girl from Miedzyrzec, who am I, they wondered.