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Jun 2, 2021, 12:00 AM
Sheikh Jarrah – a historical perspective
Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood. In the background, the city centre of Jerusalem. (Wikipedia/ Author David Shankbone / Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode via Jewish News)
Shimon Hatzaddik was a pretty important man. The Mishna in Pirkei Avot (Ethics of the Fathers) names him as a person in the chain of continuation of the transmission of Torah. He was the last of the Anshei Knesset Hagdolah (Men of the Great Assembly)...
May 12, 2021, 3:45 PM
Turning joy into misery
As with all Jews, I have been trying to make sense as to why two of our most joyous days, Lag Ba’omer and Yom Yerushalayim should end up in such tragedy, one with the sad passing of 45 Jewish souls and the other throwing our...
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Andrew Besser is a modern Orthodox Jew, a commercial lawyer by trade, enjoying the challenges of making sense of Orthodox Jewry and Israel in the modern world.
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