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Dec 4, 2024, 9:47 PM

The Piece of Paper They Wave

Fathers-in-law were never known to be Mr. Nice Guy, but let's face it -- Laban takes the cake. How many guys do you know work their sons-in-law to the point of collapse -- days, nights and holidays? Then, the old...

Nov 27, 2024, 6:49 PM

Two eras and one thing in common

He owned flocks and herds and many enterprises, and the Philistines envied him. Often, sons want to be like their fathers and sometimes they are. Issac was not. Abraham's life was marked by love and courage. He was a leader....

Nov 20, 2024, 11:13 PM

Stranger or Resident? Just Keep Your Mouth Shut

Abraham comes home from Moriah to find his wife Sarah dead. She collapsed after hearing that her son Issac had been nearly slaughtered on the mountain. Now, the patriarch wants to bury his wife in Hebron, next to the...

Nov 14, 2024, 12:56 AM

The 10th test, or How I learned to use it or lose it

It was after these words that G-d tested Abraham, and He said to him, “Abraham!” and he replied, “Here I am." Toward the end of this week's Torah portion, Vayera, comes the most difficult episode in Scriptures -- the...

Nov 7, 2024, 3:02 PM

A Criminal? No. Just a Fugitive

I'd like to settle down, but they won't let me A fugitive must be a rolling stone Down every road, there's always one more city I'm on the run the highway is my home. Some 3,000 years ago lived the patriarch of Israel....

Oct 31, 2024, 6:59 PM

When 120 Years Finally Arrives

Now, when humanity began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born to them, the princes and judges saw how pretty the girls were, and they took themselves wives from whomever they chose. The story...

Oct 10, 2024, 6:17 AM

Son or Slave: You Choose

Of all 12 tribes, Asher was perhaps the least prominent. They weren't fighters like Gad, runners like Naftali, merchants like Zevulun, kings like Judah, priests like Levi or troublemakers like Shimon and Ephraim. Asher comprised a quiet bunch of...

Sep 30, 2024, 11:01 PM

We Have a Lot of Explaining to Do

Once upon a time, there was a merchant who spotted a babe tucked near a cactus in the brutal desert of the East. The baby was crying and the merchant, a kindly old man, took the baby home. He...

Sep 25, 2024, 11:47 PM

You Call This Life?

Behold, I have set before you today life and good, and death and evil, Why does the Torah insist that life is good? For nearly 800 million hungry people in the world, getting up in the morning without something...

Sep 19, 2024, 1:52 PM

Do it well and do it fast

And your life will hang in suspense before you. You will be in fear night and day, and you will not believe in your life. Life is full of curses: things that go wrong just when you think they're...

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About Me

Steve Rodan has been a journalist for some 40 years and worked for major media outlets in Israel, Europe and the United States. For 18 years, he directed Middle East Newsline, an online daily news service that focused on defense, security and energy. Along with Elly Sinclair, he has just released his first book: In Jewish Blood: The Zionist Alliance With Germany, 1933-1963 and available on Amazon.

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