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May a general call suicide selfish?

ON his army blog of Jan. 19, the commanding general of Fort Bliss (Texas), Major General Dana Pittard, wrote regarding members of the military who commit suicide: “I...

A pernicious pattern at the UN

Forty-five years ago, in May, 1967, Egypt pushed its troops into the Sinai Peninsula, right up to the Israel-Egypt border. The Egyptian move was one of many by Egypt in...

Poland doth protest too much

Poland is up in arms over an inaccurate statement President Obama made at a ceremony honoring a Polish hero of the Holocaust, Jan Karski, with the highest American...

Making sense of your child’s test scores

Coloring inside the lines didn’t carry high stakes when we were kids.  But for our children — growing up in the era of No Child Left Behind – coloring in […]

Trees and plants grow, not adults

Maybe this is semantics, but please bear with me. A Jewish catchword of the past few years is “growth.” As in “to grow in one’s Judaism” or to “grow as […]

Full circle

RUTH, the namesake of the the Scroll of Ruth, has always been the gentle and beautiful heroine whom we all love so much. Her compassion and lovingkindness, her maternal...

Shavuot: A night of study and a life of commitment

The first time I fully experienced the glorious holiday of Shavuot was a balmy June night in Jerusalem. Determined to celebrate the ancient ritual of tikkun leil Shavuot...

Meat on Shavuos?

Dear Tzviling, Why do many people eat dairy on the holiday of Shavuos? Is it okay to eat meat on Shavuos? Molly (sent by e-mail)

Human rights abuses in China affect us all

FORCED sterilizations. Forced abortions. Imprisonment of people who ask the country to obey its own laws. Enrichment of officials who repress citizens. Violence...

The bird, not the bell

To us Americans, the symbol of freedom is that of the Liberty Bell. In Philadelphia, inscribed on the bell are the words from this week’s Torah portion, Behar, in...