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Jewish Essentials
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Sarah, the first Jewish mother, is a shining example of the great power that every woman has over her family and our entire nation. It was Sarah who insisted that Isaac, not Ishmael, continue...
Abraham worshipped idols as did his father, Terach. Abraham was an intelligent man, as was Terach. But Abraham came to recognize the falseness of the idols, while Terach stayed behind.
Because Terach never truly believed in the idols and never truly worshipped them. But when Abraham worshipped idols, it was with all...
“I multiplied Abraham’s seed, and gave him Isaac.” How is the birth of one son the fulfillment of G-d’s promise to multiply Abraham’s seed?
How the Lubavitcher Rebbe approached the perceived conflict between Torah and evolutionary science.
The Jewish Woman
These 7 Jewish parenting principles can help you go from bearish to bullish on your best long-term investment.
The Jewish Woman
When I follow my inner voice—what I call “a whisper from G‑d”—without question or hesitation, I never know where it will lead.
the factory burned down and I was left with no income. My poor wife lay ill in bed, too weak to go out. When there was not a coin left in the house, we decided to return to my father in Dvinsk.
Jewish News
Community once used stone shelters just steps from the sea
Every affliction to befall man has a set time to end; as it is written (Job 28:3), "An end He set to darkness, and every limit He investigates."
– Midrash Tanchuma
Passing of Mattityahu
(139 BCE)
In the 2nd century before the common era, the Holy Land was ruled by the Seleucids (Syrian-Greeks)... Read More »
Kristallnacht
(1938)
On this night in 1938 and continuing into the next day -- November 9 on the secular calendar -- the... Read More »
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