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Wednesday, December 16, 2020

And Justice for All

As the grandchild of German survivors, Rabbi Dovid Asher’s intense interest in the case is very personal

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Wednesday, December 02, 2020

In a Few Words

A story about a few words Reb Dovid once said, which captures so much of what made Reb Dovid the venerable personality he was

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Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Lies in Ruin

A particularly noxious form of falsehood, known in contemporary parlance as gaslighting

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Wednesday, November 18, 2020

Hanging in the Balance

A very big country, 330 million citizens strong, the great majority of whom are neither hard-right or left

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Wednesday, November 11, 2020

Hold the Phone

The only effective filter is the one to be attached to the Jewish heart and mind

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Wednesday, November 04, 2020

Behind Every Mask

In the frum community, lives continue to be lost. Either we mean it about one Jewish life being worth all the world, or not

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Wednesday, October 28, 2020

Humble Pie

Anavah: coming face-to-face with the truth about oneself, no matter how difficult that might be

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Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Unmasked

The phenomenon of hyper-partisanship in the frum community

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Wednesday, October 14, 2020

Slow and Steady

The uniqueness of learning this most foundational of peirushim on Torah

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Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Any Time, Any Place

For four decades, master mechanech Rabbi Shmuel Zalmen Kleinman has been reaching out to public school kids of all backgrounds and placing them in frum summer camps and yeshivos — ...

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Wednesday, September 23, 2020

Moral Support

The conditions necessary to address the sin of avodah zarah in our midst