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Because who is perfect?

A stumped arm. And leg.Three toes. A malformed spine. These are  some of the visuals in a profoundly moving video that came across my desk. “Because Who is Perfect?...

Immorality of leaving Iraq

On every level and from every perspective — from pure national interest to the purely moral — the decision by the Obama administration and the Democratic Party to...

Reefer sanity takes hold in Colorado

Seven years before legal marijuana went on sale this month in my home state of Colorado, the drug warriors in President George W. Bush’s administration released an...

America, ‘greatest threat to peace?’

LAST week the International Business Times reported:?“In their annual End of Year poll, researchers for WIN and Gallup International surveyed more than 66,000 people...

Crossing the Red Sea

APPROXIMATELY 46 years ago, when I was a student at Yeshiva University, I sat for an exam with Rabbi Mendel Zaks. On one level, the scene was surrealistic, perhaps even...

Why is rosh chodesh the first mitzvah?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg’s Torah column is this week written by guest columnist Chaim M. Goldberg, a sophomore at Yeshiva University. IN this week’s Torah portion,...

Quiet revolutions

The anxiety over the issue of the haredi draft in Israel is increasing. Last week in New York City there was a protest by some chasidic groups against the State...

Territorial Imperative: forward to the past

In The Territorial Impe In The Territorial Imperative, Robert Ardrey argues that a universal, primal instinct encompasses both the animal kingdom and humankind: the...

Why I say Merry Christmas

As a Jew, and a religious one at that, this week, I am wishing my fellow Americans a Merry Christmas. Not “Happy Holidays.” Merry Christmas. I write, “my fellow...

As a child suffers…

Heartbreakingly, many of us have heard of the tragic plight of the  little boy from Texas, Rephael Elisha Meir ben Devora Cohen. Aside from the fact that many of us...