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Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Second Thoughts
Rabbi Emanuel Feldman
Yardsticks
“Oh, goodness, I’m so happy. It’s amazing what a good fit does to a gown. Beautiful, beautiful”
Esty Heller
Yardsticks
It was not my place to tell Yocheved what to do. This was her business, her responsibility. I couldn’t change the world
Esty Heller
By the Numbers
Parental support: readers share their takes
Family First Readers
By the Numbers
As children become adults, how much do they — and should they — rely on their parents for support? Over 800 parents and children weigh in
Mishpacha Readers
At a Glance
ISIS is back as a long-term threat
Gedalia Guttentag
At a Glance
Bolsonaro’s Brazil, pro-Israel at last
Gedalia Guttentag
Impressions
I’m still tied to a tradition stemming all the way back to the First Temple
Boaz Bachrach
Impressions
Elderly Danish Jews relive the night they were rowed to safety 
Riki Goldstein
The Opinionator
The culture war over gun control
Gedalia Guttentag
The Opinionator
“The Iranians want nuclear weapons, but on the cheap, and safely”
Gedalia Guttentag
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Never Again these days has a very hollow ring to it. Never Again has become Once Again

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Here they come, the teenagers headed for their schools and dormitories, rolling their carry-ons behind them

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We will “pass the ammunition” and destroy the enemy, but we dare not forget to “praise the L-rd”     These are difficult days for us all. This is not an ordinary war — which is bad enough — but a medieval, Nazi-like, cold-blooded massacre and pogrom against Jews, rivaling in its brutality the bloodiest in Jewish

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Faithful readers are rare, devoutly to be cherished

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When all seems lost and we are convinced that there is no turning back, He offers us a precious gift, which He calls Teshuvah

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman

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Are the real Zionists those who pray hamachazir shechinaso leTzion three times a day, or those who never give a thought to prayer, to G-d, or to Zion?

By Rabbi Emanuel Feldman