Not all the statues need to come down – Forward
admin | July 17, 2020
Image by iStock Apotheosis of St. Louis statue of King Louis IX of France, namesake of St. Louis, Missouri in Forest Park, St.
Affective Forecasting: Don’t Do It – The Jewish Press – JewishPress.com
admin | July 17, 2020
Photo Credit: Jewish Press Imagine for a moment that you won the lottery mazal tov! As you envision yourself at that hopeful, future moment, you presumably believe you will be filled with overwhelming, positive emotions. But while there is excitement and happiness involved in winning, research shows that over time, lottery winners are not significantly happier than non-winners.
The End of Anti-Semitism – Aish
admin | July 13, 2020
We need to stand up and speak out.
Learning From the Past: Reckless Jewish Kings Through the Ages – Algemeiner
admin | July 13, 2020
A Torah scroll. Photo: RabbiSacks.org. The Fast of the Seventeenth of Tammuz that we have just passed initiates a three-week period of mourning for the loss, twice, of Jerusalem and the Temple.
Peter Beinart’s one state solution sounds so perfect it’s practically utopian – Haaretz
admin | July 13, 2020
Rabbi Yochanan Ben Zakkai, the last president of the Sanhedrin in Jerusalem before the Roman legions destroyed theTemple and uprooted the Jews from their capital, was a complex man. He was a trader, a scholar, a polemicist and a judge
How to beat the virus? It’s in the Talmud – Jewish News
admin | July 9, 2020
Right, we have a problem; 500 of us have died of the virus and thats considerably more than should have.
Why the great Talmudists valued contrary opinions – San Diego Jewish World
admin | July 9, 2020
By Rabbi Dr. Michael Leo Samuel CHULA VISTA, California The Talmud has always been a champion of free speech
Turn to Tractate Shabbat for wisdom navigating the pandemic – Forward
admin | July 9, 2020
Four months ago, those of us who take part in Daf Yomi opened Tractate Shabbat to begin a 157 day journey through the longest volume of the Talmud. Daf Yomi is the practice of reading a page of Talmud everyday. The seven year cycle takes readers through 2,711 winding, nuanced and fascinating pages of ancient wisdom.
Don’t hide from the sins of St. Louis – America Magazine
admin | July 9, 2020
I will pour forth tears until like a river they reachUnto the tombs of your most noble princes,Moses and Aaron, on Mount Hor, and I will ask: Is thereA new Torah, that your scrolls may be burned?
Fast of the 17th of Tammuz: Times and customs – The Jerusalem Post
admin | July 9, 2020
Thursday marks the fast of the 17th of the Hebrew month of Tammuz, a day commemorating a number of tragedies in Jewish history and the start of a mourning period known as the Three Weeks, when many Jews traditionally follow some mourning customs. Five tragedies are said to have occurred on the 17th of Tammuz: the breaking of the tablets of the Ten Commandments by Moses, the cessation of the daily offering during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem, the burning of the Torah by Apostomos, the placing of an idol the Temple in Jerusalem and the breaching of the walls of Jerusalem by the Romans in 69 CE after a long siege
