Back to the USSR: Dispatch from Moscow
How does Russian history affect our Jewish lives today?
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Virtual Reality: 12 Tammuz
The Chassidic holiday Yud Beis Tammuz celebrates the release of Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Scheerson from imprisonment by the Russian government. This article discusses the connection between 12 Tammuz and the idea of reality.
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Shelach: Spain 2010
Sitting in Spain – a country that once expelled all its Jews – listening to the powerful influence that Jews have today on world leaders is quite overwhelming. We sure have come a long way.
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Beshalach: Moscow 2009
Yesterday, Moscow was destroying lives, today it is building them. Yesterday, Moscow all but annihilated Jewish life and morale. Today Jewish life is thriving here.
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Simchat Torah: Bizarre Journeys
Wherever you go, as difficult as the journey may be it is all for a higher purpose: to redeem the Divine sparks that can only be found in that dark place.
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Kislev 19 in Babylon
The power of Yud-Tes Kislev: two events on the same day 205 years apart – the Alter Rebbe’s release from prison & Saddam Hussein’s capture. The connection?
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