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Blessings and Curses

This Week’s Torah Portion, Parshat Ki Tavo, contains an account of an incredible ceremony that was to take place once the Israelites...

For Lack of a Nail

There is an old ditty that I remember from my childhood that went like this: For lack of a nail, the shoe was lost. For lack of a shoe, a...

Have You Ever Smelled a Camel?

Parshat Chayei Sarah I am an animal lover and have been a vegetarian for 35 years. Now, I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m...

Let Us Not Be Like Them

Parshat VaYeira What a story! Sinners! Destruction! Sodomites! There is so much this week’s Parsha, VaYeira, teaches us as it tells...