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The summer months are upon us, and I want to call attention to a most beautiful custom practiced during this time. From the first Sabbath after Pesach until the Sabbath before Rosh Hashanah, we have the custom of studying Pirke Avot, Chapters of the Fathers, every Sabbath afternoon. Pirke Avot is a tractate in the order of Nezikin, one of the sections of the Mishnah. More ... The subject, electrical wiring, may sound too mundane to generate a scandal. This is not about sex as in the sad saga of Larry Craig. There is no prospect of the scandal bringing down the government as witnessed in Watergate. The best comparison is to Tea Pot Dome in the l920s when connections to officials in high places led to money and corruption. More ... I've always disagreed with Hemingway on his notion that newspaper reporting "blunts the instrument" for writing good and true fiction. My favorite novels open with a bang, like the first four notes of Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. More ... Many people, including Israelis and Diaspora Jews, have misconceptions about land beyond the 1949 Armistice Line. This demarcation, also known as the Green Line or the "1967 border," is not a permanent border between Israelis and Palestinians. More ... ESCAPING FROM VIENNA IN 1940 WASN'T EASY SAYS SHOAH SURVIVOR REGINA SPIVACK In 1940, Vienna, Austria was crawling with Nazis wearing their hated swastika armbands and the ever present Gestapo agents with a mission to round up Jews. More ... |
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