admin | June 2, 2022
On Saturday, May 14, an 18-year-old gunman entered a supermarket in Buffalo and opened fire. In a matter of minutes, ten innocent people were dead and three more injured. Eleven of the victims were African American, deliberately targeted because of the colour of their skin.
admin | June 2, 2022
While we strongly support and applaud the current community-wide efforts to encourage thousands of our co-religionists to sign petitions calling for a reversal of the proposed NYS Department of Education regulations prescribing yeshiva curriculums, we also cannot fail to note with sadness that we have yet to take a page from the very successful advocacy book of some of our fellow minorities. Black Americans have scored big time by coming out en masse in public places urging this or that result. To be sure some of their demonstrations have unfortunately been marked by violence.
admin | June 2, 2022
They do not merit fame only infamy. Grief, despair, anguish all of these words express, in the limited way words can convey heartbreaking pain, our response to the horror of this past weeks murderous rampage in the elementary school in Uvalde, Texas that took the lives of 19 children and two teachers.
admin | June 2, 2022
An inscription from about 1,800 years ago that was recently uncovered in a burial cave in Beit Shearim, northern Israel, reveals the name of the deceased and his identity: Yaakov the Convert. The full inscription and the story of its discovery were presented at a joint conference of the University of Haifa and the Israel Antiquities Authority on Wednesday only days ahead of the holiday of Shavuot which celebrates Ruth the Moabite, the classic convert to Judaism. The inscription is from the Late Roman or Early Byzantine period, in which Christianity was becoming powerful, and yet we find evidence that there were still gentiles who chose to join the Jewish people, said Prof.
admin | June 2, 2022
By Rabbi Levi Greenberg There is no purpose for me to describe what happened in Uvalde last week, nor how I feel about it, because you know that already. We mourn the victims and feel solidarity with their loved ones.
admin | June 2, 2022
In most communities, the Book of Ruth is read on Shavuot during the Shacharit service, usually after Hallel.1 There are several reasons for this custom. According to one explanation, it is read for the many lessons in character refinement that can be learned from the story.
admin | June 2, 2022
unomat/iStock via Getty Images Dr. Wade Pfau, Professor of Retirement Income, Calls Bonds Useless and Equities Risky.
admin | June 2, 2022
By Rabbi Yossy Goldman Afew years ago, I was chairing a meeting of rabbis in Johannesburg, and our distinguished guest speaker was the late Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks. He began by inquiring what was the single most frequently asked question of rabbis
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