A Tribute to Rabbi Yehuda Leib Raskin
The Anti-Semitism Vaccine
By Shimon Posner
On Sunday, May 2, 2004, Rabbi Leib Raskin, Chabad Lubavitch emissary to Morocco for more than 44 years, returned his soul to his Maker. He was 71 years old.
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G-d's Real Estate
By Shimon Posner
She was already sitting in my row as I got onto the plane. With her hands folded in front and her elbows sticking over the armrests, she was what they call matronly. But she had an air about her that screamed activist. A garish medallion with Arabic ...
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Parshah Moment
By Shimon Posner
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Finding Love
By Shimon Posner
"I want someone who's kind but not the too-kind type that lets himself be walked on, smart but not haughty, assertive but not overbearing, handsome but not vain.." The Rebbe laughed. "It sounds like you want to marry more than one person"
Lifecycles » Marriage » Finding Your Soulmate » Whom Should I Marry? » Readings » Finding Love
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"Sanviches"
By Shimon Posner
Do we have any connection to our parents? Is a connection vital? Abraham, Isaac and a life lesson to our generation
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Old Age, Old Wine
By Shimon Posner
Capturing youth is canning wine, at best
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My Son the Doctor
By Shimon Posner
Parents want to provide their children with that what the parents grew up without. Perhaps a greater accomplishment would be to provide their children with that what the parent took for granted...
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My Dreidel, Your Dreidel, Our Dreidel
By Shimon Posner
Oh Dreidel, Dreidel, Dreidel, I made you out of clay, and the Almighty Himself breathed into you a soul of fire and you in turn tempered in His people a will of steel...
Jewish Holidays » Chanukah » Insights & Stories » Chanukah Gifts & Dreidels » My Dreidel, Your Dreidel, Our Dreidel
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Hugs
By Shimon Posner
a moment of faith does not separate between long-lost loves. It holds them together...
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Live With Death; Die With Life
By Shimon Posner
Many act like it ain't happening. They dress the dead in tuxes and ballroom dresses and do the dead's hair and apply them with make-up. We're here to celebrate a life, they chirp, while the elephant in the room swishes his large head
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