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Judaism v. Hellenism


		The Mudswamps of Hella Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe What happens when you mix the soil of materialism with the water of spurious reason?



		Yehudit and You By Chana (Jenny) Weisberg The ceremony marking the beginning of the school year was held in a local church. When I went to speak with the college president about this non-inclusive choice of venue, he answered me with a kindly smile... 2 Comments



		Women at War By Chana Kroll The Jewish people - men and women - defied every Greek law with enormous self-sacrifice, yet it was largely by and for the sake of Jewish women that the Maccabees were led to declare war... 2 Comments



		The Transparent Body Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe The most spiritual battle in Jewish history 1 Comment



		Why Couldn't the Jews and Greeks Just Get Along? By Tzvi Freeman They could have learned so much from each other! Instead, the extremists hit the battlefield 9 Comments



		Compromise Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe To a mature tree, a gash here or a torn limb there is of little or no consequence. But the smallest nick in the seedling results in an irrevocable deformity



		The Significance of Eight Seven symbolizes the Natural order, eight symbolizes the Super-natural 1 Comment



		The Rest of the Story By Asher Lowenstein Historians note that this was the sole occurrence in the career of Antiochus that a people's religious privileges were revoked... 1 Comment



		Seeing Lessons By Shlomo Yaffe Hedonism and ascetics are two sides of this same Hellenic coin: when the soul (flame) meets the body (wick), either the flame gutters out, or it consumes the wick leaving only formless soot behind...



		All's Well – When it Ends By Baruch Epstein Today is the seeds for all of the "shoulda, coulda woulda" that can become weeds of regret. Yet at times it seems that the flowers that blossom from our choices take too much time to blossom. 1 Comment