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Browse > Home / Books, Featured Articles / The Choice: A Novel of Love, Faith, and the Talmud - reviewed by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen J-Wire August 25, 2022 by Rabbi Jeffrey Cohen Read on for article Maggie Anton has introduced us to a number of stories around Jewish life, beginning with her series on Rashis Daughters [3 novels] followed by Rav Hisdas Daughter [2 novels] and one about personal relationships {Fifty Shades of Talmud]. The story is based on a young woman reporter of a Jewish newspaper who in interviewing a young up-and-coming rabbinic scholar, convinces him to teach her Talmud- something which does not surprise the reader of today, for it has become not uncommon, it clearly was viewed as a no-no in the 1950s orthodox world
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Jews around the world had a sense of detachment as we watched the brutal attack last week on Salman Rushdie. There is almost some relief in the knowledge that this isnt our battle.
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Question: As we now read Sefer Devarim, the Torah tells us that Moses was instructed by Hashem to appoint a successor. Moses wanted his sons to succeed him but Hashem tells him to appoint Yehoshua as the next leader. Why was this request of the greatest and most righteous of men denied?
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Posted on August 26, 2022 (5782) By Rabbi Label Lam | Series: Dvar Torah | Level: Beginner See I place before you today blessing and curse.
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Some people get angry at the Jewish calendar. It takes away their ability to decide when they want to rejoice, when they want to mourn and when they want to repent.
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Drive along any main street of an American town. You will pass a building with a sign in front: Read the Bible! I can guarantee you that building is most likely an evangelical Protestant church
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When was the Hebrew Bible or Old Testament (OT) written? The answer is complicated because the OT is not a single bookits a library. In addition, even within that library, the books themselves are not books in the modern sense, but composite texts which themselves weave together both oral and written traditionssometimes gathered together over centuries.
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For Fall 2022, the Zahava and Moshael Straus Center for Torah and Western Thought, in collaboration withYeshiva College(YC) and Stern College for Women, is offeringnumerous coursesforStraus Scholarsand Yeshiva University undergraduate students to study the great texts and traditions of the West and Judaism. Back by popular demand, Straus Center Clinical Assistant Professor Rabbi Dr. Dov Lerner is teaching The Thought of Rabbi Sacks on the Beren campus, as well as Malbim and Modernity, which focuses on the nineteenth-century exegete
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There is a curious artistic feature in the US Capitol: above the gallery doors in the House Chamber are 23 relief portraits, the faces of lawgivers from across history. They were identified by scholars, legislators, and the staff of the Library of Congress as sources for the American constitutional tradition, noted for their work in establishing the principles that underlie American law. Some of them are those youd expect influential English jurists like William Blackstone and Founding Fathers such as George Mason
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Sales of recreational marijuana are expected to begin soon on Long Island, another step in the legalization of cannabis in New York for adults 21 and older. This weeks clergy discuss what Scripture says and doesnt say about the drug previously legalized for medicinal prescription.
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