admin | February 1, 2021
Read this article in Yiddish. Imagine a world in the not-so-distant future when most jobs in our economy will be replaced by machines; not just blue-collar workers like truck drivers and garbage collectors, but also accountants, bookkeepers, teachers, even doctors and lawyers. Lets face it, the rapid transition to automation is going to happen because it means increased productivity, more efficient use of materials, better product quality and improved safety
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admin | January 28, 2021
Nature is not cancelled. Trees are still growing. Roots are still spreading
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admin | January 28, 2021
The summer before seventh grade, I started wearing my dads Stetson hat and paisley bathrobe, which I believed approximated the bell-sleeved garment that Jimi Hendrix wore in the poster on my bedroom walla strange rendering in iridescent pastels, with Jimi looking like a dandified cowboy, playing a righty guitar lefty so that it was, fascinatingly, upside down. I wore the outfit for a class presentation that fall, brought in my own electric guitar and amp, and did the opening ten or twelve bars of Purple Haze. The amp was way too loud for the room, the window casings rattled, my classmates looked frightened
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admin | January 28, 2021
Seeing the Light To the Editor: In her review of Andrea Pitzers Icebound: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the Word (Jan. 10), Rachel Slade concludes by writing: Icebound is a reminder that there was once a time when things were unknown. And when their ships bumped up against the edge of the Arctic, the Europeans gazed with horror and awe at the sparkling ice and wondered what Edens lay beyond, waiting to be discovered.
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admin | January 28, 2021
Who is the wise person? The one who foresees the consequences, the Talmud sagely tells us.
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admin | January 28, 2021
Parashat Bo recounts the harshest of the plagues that were inflicted upon the Egyptian people in the course of the Exodus story, but it also describes the beginning of our ancestors journey toward freedom.
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admin | January 28, 2021
(JTA) On Jan. 27, 1969, nine Jews were hanged in Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad as half a million people looked on. It was the climax of a campaign ofpersecutionthat followed the establishment of Israel, which in turn hastened an exodus of what had been a strong and flourishing community.
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admin | January 28, 2021
Is it ever appropriate to get drunk? The Talmud (Megillah 7b) cites Ravas opinion that one must become drunk on Purim to the point that one is unable to tell the difference between cursed be Haman and blessed be Mordecai.
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admin | January 28, 2021
For many in Israel and across the world who have been confined to their homes weary from a constant diet of political drama and itching to extricate themselves from coronavirus woes a new year is about to begin: Tu BShevat, the New Year for the Trees. Many rabbis describe this as a particularly important time to appreciate the land of Israel.
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admin | January 28, 2021
By Carol Goodman Kaufman| Correspondent Millennia before Nebraskan J.
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