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48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #36
Hillel GoldbergJan 17, 2019
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #36, “Taking no joy from issuing halachic...
Best Practices for Living Life to the Fullest
Amy LedermanJan 17, 2019
It wasn’t more than a few days after my Dad died, just four months shy of his 100th birthday, that my brother and I began the formidable task of “going through...
‘Safe Injection Site’
Shana GoldbergJan 17, 2019
Denver is considering instituting a so-called Safe Injection Site (SIS), where IV drug users can shoot up with clean needles, and staff is onsite to administer naloxone...
The miracle and the mourning
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 17, 2019
One of the most dramatic visual scenes in the Torah is that of the splitting of the Red Sea. To see nature reverse its natural course — rupturing a natural pattern of...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #35
Hillel GoldbergJan 10, 2019
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #35, “Loving integrity” Arrogance is like...
The push for schism
Jonathan TobinJan 10, 2019
Jonathan Weisman doesn’t understand much about the nature of modern anti-Semitism. But Weisman, an editor at The New York Times and author of a remarkably obtuse book...
Muscle memory
Shana GoldbergJan 10, 2019
About once a decade I go through a knitting phase. I first learned the skill in college from a friend’s mother. About 10 years later I picked it up again in Zurich....
An apology is not enough
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 10, 2019
We all place a great deal of expectation in our doctors. There is a certain trust that we have in members of the medical profession. As patients, oftentimes, when we are...
48 Ways to Acquire the Torah: Way #34
Hillel GoldbergJan 03, 2019
Pirkei Avot, “Ethics of the Fathers,” states in chapter 6:6: “The Torah is acquired in 48 ways.” This week: Way #34, “Shunning honors” Who and what...
Illegal in Israel
Tehilla R. GoldbergJan 03, 2019
They call it the world’s oldest profession. I don’t know that it is. Perhaps agriculture, midwifery or slavery would, in fact, meet the definition. It doesn’t...
