Never Stop Fighting

Photo Credit: Jewish Press “The children agitated within her, and she said, ‘If so, why am I like this?’ She went to inquire of Hashem who said to her, ‘Two nations are in your womb; two regimes from your inside will be separated’” (Bereishis 25:22-23). The Degel Machane Ephraim comments that the Torah is teaching […]

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Auctioned: Bergen Belzen Beit Din’s Register of Deceased Spouses to Prevent Agunot/Agunim

Photo Credit: United Kingdom Armed Forces; Imperial War Museum Cheerful women inmates collect their bread ration after the Liberation of Bergen-belsen, April 1945 A rabbinical court’s register concerning the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in Germany, covering the dates from May 12, 1947 to January 7, 1948, and containing about 85 court rulings permitting Holocaust survivors to […]

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Watch: Jeremy Corbyn Refuses Four Times to Apologize for Labour Anti-Semitism

[embedded content] In a Tuesday interview with Andrew Neil on BBC, Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said he “regrets” the anti-Semitic incidents in his party, but stopped short of personally apologizing, in response to UK Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis’s harsh criticism. Piers Morgan said on Good Morning Britain the next day that Corbyn “must be anti-Semitic.” […]

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The Disappearance Of Yizchak

Photo Credit: Jewish Press It’s a haunting question. Why did Yitzchak love Eisav? The verse says so explicitly: “Yitzchak, who had a taste for wild game, loved Eisav, but Rivka loved Yaakov” (Bereishis 25:28). Whichever way we read this verse, it is perplexing. If we read it literally, it suggests that Yitzchak’s affections were governed by […]

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