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48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #16
Hillel GoldbergAug 16, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #16, “Limited marital relations” Some...
Dear Mr. Lauder
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 16, 2018
This past Monday, The New York Times ran an opinion piece penned by the honorable Mr. Ronald Lauder, chairman of World Jewish Congress. Mr. Lauder is known for his...
Benefit of the doubt
Shana GoldbergAug 16, 2018
Upon visiting Mount Rushmore in 1936, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt said: “I think that we can perhaps meditate a little on those Americans 10,000 years from...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #15b
Hillel GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #15, “Limited Business” The list of 48 ways...
Honorary grandfather of Colorado sports
Tehilla R. GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Looking back, like into the frame of a photo from long ago, I wish I had noticed what Jerry Mellman was like in the moments he was photographing sports players in...
Casualties
Shana GoldbergAug 09, 2018
Massacre or battle? It depends who’s telling the story. While in South Dakota last week, I visited a history exhibition at Oglala Lakota College on the Pine Ridge...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #15
Hillel GoldbergAug 02, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #15, “Mishnah” Mishnah has two connotations:...
Whither ADL?
Jonathan TobinAug 02, 2018
When Jonathan Greenblatt replaced Abe Foxman as national director of the Anti-Defamation League in 2015, the shift from a career Jewish professional to a veteran...
‘Two’ heroines? No.
Shana GoldbergAug 02, 2018
Ahed Tamimi, the teen Palestinian who beat up IDF soldiers (captured on camera) was released from Israeli prison after eight months of incarceration. She thrives on...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #14
Hillel GoldbergJul 26, 2018
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #14, “Scripture” Rabbi Avraham Yaffen...
