Vayigash 5769 - January 2, 2009 |
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Front Line Blog
By Yared Ben-Caro
IDF Paratrooper Yared Ben Caro is taking some time each day to text us updates from the field of operations. |
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The Worst Fifteen Seconds of Your Life
By Chana Weisberg
In vain, you attempt to squelch the dooming thoughts ablaze in your mind...the horrors of what could happen...what might be the terrifying end result. |
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My Ninety-Five Year Old Classmate
By N. Ozick
I understand why she has shown little interest in learning my name, or even looking me in the eye. When you're ninety-five, "honey" will do for just about anyone. She calls the teacher "honey" too. Nothing personal. |
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I Shall Not Fear--Part II
By Mirish Kiszner
Katya couldn't move. She was dumbfounded. The office, the OVIR chief, everything seemed to be an illusion. In utter disbelief she watched the chief slide a red passport across the desk. |
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Where Bin Laden Went Wrong
By Sholom Lew
It's a safe bet you've not traveled to Hadhramout, never mind heard of the location. It is an ancient region, located somewhere in the hardscrabble deserts of Eastern Yemen. |
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Do You Hear What You Sound Like?
By Sara Chana Radcliffe
About twenty years from now, as they deal with their kids in the morning, after school and at bed time, your children will sound like you. Will that be a good thing? |
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What is the Jewish View on Martyrdom?
By Tzvi Freeman
I know that there are religions in which it's a great thing to die for your faith, and doing so makes you a saint or gets you a ticket to paradise. What is the Jewish view? Is a person supposed to die for his beliefs? |
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Is it Okay to be Angry with G‑d?
By Tzvi Freeman
...or are we supposed to simply accept that everything He send our way is for the good |
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How Do You Get Faith?
By Bronya Shaffer
With all the tragedy and suffering in the world, how am I supposed to believe? I would like to feel faith, but it doesn't come... |
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The Parshah in a Nutshell
Joseph finally reveals his identity; his brothers are remorseful, his father overjoyed, and all come to live in the fertile ghetto of Goshen, Egypt. Happy ending or tragic beginning? |
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Do You Have a Father?
Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveichik
What kind of question did Joseph ask his brothers? Doesn't everybody have a father? |
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Can Love Overcome Resentment?
By Yisroel Susskind
Judah was essentially saying, "It makes no difference whether I think that my father was unfair. I have reached deep within myself and know that the most important truth is that I love my father and I cannot allow him such pain..." |
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The Fake Enemy
By Yanki Tauber
The purpose of the exercise was to move Jacob and family from Hebron to Egypt, about 200 miles as the crow flies across the Sinai Peninsula. But what a convoluted route this exercise took! |
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The Solo Journey
By Shirley Coles
How does one reach out to others, to give and to receive, if the very act of waking in the morning causes the pain of realizing one has loved and lost? |
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You Are What You Eat
By Angela Goldstein
Trying to keep kosher represents my own evolving relationship with food, G‑d and being a Jew... |
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As Rockets Rain Down, Israeli Residents Keep an Eye to the Sky
By Tamar Runyan
Throughout Saturday night and Sunday, as waves of aircraft pounded military targets in the Gaza Strip and Hamas forces retaliated with rocket attacks aimed at Israeli civilians, Chabad-Lubavitch emissaries and rabbinical students made the rounds of hospitals to visit with the wounded. |
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