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Becoming my Brother’s Keeper
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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An Elul Confession
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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The Tenth of Av
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
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Just Thinking
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 979
“Sometimes it seems that people forget that chinuch is an inherently difficult task”
Family First Readers
Family First Inbox
Family First Inbox: Issue 978
“If you have lettuce and greenhouse-grown lettuce, what is the difference? Nothing! So why is it different with diamonds?”
Family First Readers
Yiddishe Gelt
How We Do Gifts
“We always celebrate birthdays, but we don’t overdo it. It’s all about getting together, learning something, making a hachlatah, making a l’chayim, making a shehecheyanu”
Rochel Burstyn
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How We Do... Restaurants
How much do you fork over when dining out?
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Jewish thinkers are always in the media. They make very profound pronouncements about life about world events (past present and especially future) about the meaning and significance of… well everything. Thinkers think a lot — that is their job — and they are more than willing to share the results of their thinking with the
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The Opinionator
What Can Be Done to End America's Mass Murders?
The culture war over gun control
Gedalia Guttentag
The Opinionator
Should the US Withdraw from the Iran Deal or Not?
“The Iranians want nuclear weapons, but on the cheap, and safely”
Gedalia Guttentag
One of the Flock
Small Shofar, Booming Call    
He had the smallest shofar I had ever seen, but the sound he produced was deafening
Rabbi Yossi Bensoussan
One of the Flock
One of the Flock
Which members of the flock still shape your Rosh Hashanah?
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The “Ten Most” Answers

Our last column (Issue 444) listed ten challenging questions. Today we suggest some answers. To refresh memories the original questions are summarized and printed at the beginning of each answer below.   1) What root word is found repeatedly at the beginning of Bereishis?  Other than tov (good) which is of course common throughout the

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman