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The focus here is not on the mitzvah of giving, but on what giving can do for you

It is our eagerness for the one or the other that best defines us as Jews

In the final analysis, are we humans any more than facsimiles of racehorses?

They sense that they have lost the battle for the Israeli soul; they know that the electorate — not only the Orthodox — has said No to their desire to shed our uniqueness

We have not been abandoned. He is listening for our tap at His door

Perhaps we all need a reminder, in the midst of haggling and dealing, that we are living not in an ordinary land