Noa'h 5784 en français
Translated by Rabbi Émile Ackermann La métaphore classique pour décrire l’Amérique était autrefois celle du “melting-pot”. Les immigrants venaient de différents pays, avec leur cultures, leur milieu et leur langue. En arrivant aux Etats-Unis, et s’acculturaient et s’américanisaient pour former un tout homogène.…
Noach 5784 in English
Originally published October 2021 The classic metaphor for America used to be that of the melting pot. People came from all different countries, cultures, backgrounds, and languages. They would come to America, and they would get homogenized and Americanized into one indistinguishable whole.…
by Dvir Cahana
Posted on October 27, 2022
(The following is a constructed midrash of the final days on the ark) It was a brisk afternoon in late October. Noah looked out from his Teiva and noticed how the tips of the mountains had begun exposing their nibs through the ocean foam.…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on October 7, 2021
The classic metaphor for America used to be that of the melting pot. People came from all different countries, cultures, backgrounds, and languages. They would come to America, and they would get homogenized and Americanized into one indistinguishable whole. Now a different metaphor has gained preeminence, and that is the metaphor of the salad bowl.…
by Rabbi Dov Linzer
Posted on November 2, 2016
God creates a perfect, self-sustaining planet, teaming with life. God places human beings in it and gives them seemingly divine powers: rule over all living things, and the ability to build, create, transform, and take mastery over the entire planet (Breishit 1:28-29).…
by Rabbi Haggai Resnikoff
Posted on November 2, 2016
There is significant tension in the Torah literature regarding the death penalty. On one hand, the written Torah clearly supports the use of the death penalty although it is not so clear why. On the other hand, the Rabbis seem to be uncomfortable with it, apparently out of concerns for judicial error and perhaps also because of their discomfort with direct retaliation.…
by Dr. Shalom Holtz
Posted on November 1, 2016
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by Rabbi Nachman Levine
Posted on October 26, 2016
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by Dr. Deena Grant
Posted on October 26, 2016
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