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A nice teaching from Rabbi Levi Yitzhak of Berditchev on this week's Torah portion (Vayishlach)*. * To my text-loving friends, the pla...

This week's Torah portion contains the famous episode of Jacob wrestling with--well, it's not clear what, exactly, he was wrestling ...

Deuteronomy 23:8 teaches us, "Do not abhor an Egyptian." Do not hate, do not despise an Egyptian. Why the heck not? I don...

As the week ends, it's hard for me not to notice, not to feel, how broken our world seems right now. Just days ago, innocent men were sl...

As some of you know, I was in a TV news clip yesterday, talking about the horrific terrorist attack in Jerusalem. A few people commented th...

I started to write this, I remembered that I'd actually written about it once before, not that long ago. It's kinda long and rambly,...

I posted this on Facebook, but I wanted to take a moment and expand on what I was thinking. A few days ago, 106 retired generals, Mossad d...