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Teaching Torah In Las Vegas

In a 2007 lecture on Leviticus 12 – 13, Dennis Prager says: Twenty five years ago, I was teaching Torah to the Jewish community of Las Vegas on a regular basis. They would fly me in every month. One time … Continue reading

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Middlemarch by George Eliot

I’m near the end of this novel. A few weeks ago, I saw the BBC miniseries. I’m struck by the shunning delivered to one of the major characters in the novel when it is discovered that he came by his … Continue reading

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Dear God, Why Is There A Naked Lady In My Haggadah?

Rabbi Gil Student writes: There was always one passage that stuck out in my youthful mind because it refers to a naked woman with a little detail (see below). As I grew older and learned what the passage means from … Continue reading

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