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Jan 6, 2025, 7:27 AM
On his way out
After 65 years as a rabbi, I think I know more than a little bit about human nature. So trust me when I share with you a truth about the most dangerous time for rational people to act irrationally and...
Nov 17, 2024, 2:32 PM
The one-word explanation for the presidential landslide
By now I think I have heard all the explanations. Yet the Trump landslide surely deserves the inclusion of the solitary one word answer that somehow escapes legitimacy in our contemporary society. So far the most common response to the totally...
Apr 17, 2024, 9:32 PM
‘Take the win’
Three words capture the profound pathos of Jewish history – past and present. Three words convey the tragedy of the world’s oppression of the Jew. They are the unspoken yet self-understood prejudice against the one people whose simple existence seems to...
Jan 4, 2024, 12:04 PM
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Why do they hate us?
I first asked this question when I was a young boy, fleeing the Holocaust on the last boat out of Europe. Now I have an answer
Nov 30, 2023, 8:21 AM
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When history rhymes
What can Israel do when the enemy states clearly that massacre remains its goal and Jewish death is the only end that will satisfy?
Jul 11, 2022, 8:27 AM
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‘No children, please!’ – The childless-by-choice movement
How will they answer the divine test question: 'Did you attempt to imitate God’s role as creator by fulfilling the commandment to be fruitful and multiply?'
Oct 17, 2021, 2:10 PM
Ben and Jerry don’t do themselves any favors
To put it mildly, last week’s interview on national TV with the two cofounders of Ben & Jerry’s was nothing less than a disaster. Ben Cohen and his ice cream empire’s partner, Jerry Greenfield, gave us a vivid demonstration of...
Nov 11, 2019, 12:15 AM
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If the White House invites you, Judaism says go
The baseball World Series champions who stayed away from the ceremony because they don't like Trump missed the point
Feb 20, 2019, 8:40 AM
Jews and political suicide
To tell the truth I’m not surprised at the resurgence of anti-Semitism – not only across the world but even here in the United States. Anti-Semitism is an ancient sickness long ago predicted by the Torah and the prophets,...
Jan 31, 2018, 3:14 PM
How the World Just Escaped Extinction
This is not fake news. Just a short while ago, the world narrowly escaped a catastrophic event, one which could well have caused its total destruction. To my mind, it should have received far more universal attention. In its aftermath,...
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Rabbi Benjamin Blech is a Professor of Talmud at Yeshiva University and an internationally recognized educator, religious leader, and lecturer.
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