(JTA) — Dr. Anthony Fauci, the country’s top infectious disease specialist, was awarded a one million dollar prize from an Israeli foundation …
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Like many of you who have been cooped up at home these many months, my family decided to get a pet, in our case a terribly sweet little cat we…
A young boy once went to the circus and was astonished when he saw that there was a giant elephant tethered to the ground by a thin rope. Curi…
Yiddish abounds in distinctive features, vocabulary, and idioms. The more familiar we become with Yiddish, the greater our cherished storehous…
So we’ve all been watching “Unorthodox.” Whatever you might think about the show, it has brought a lot of attention to the cultural details of…
What is Yiddish? “Yiddish is a way of life,” you will hear. “Yiddish is a culture, a heritage,” or “Yiddish is an entire world.” Whatever else…
Question: I was scrolling through my news feed the other day and saw a Tweet which mentioned “code switching.” It said that words like “ain’t”…
Is that all? In the words of the Sages of the Talmud, “And is that such a small matter to accomplish?” (B.T. Berakhot 33b) How can the Torah e…
So opens our Biblical portion, which is making reference to the covenant at Mt. Gerizim and Mt. Eybal which dramatically concludes the Book of…
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