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Arthur Szyk The Rabbis at B’nai B’rak (detail) Lodz, 1935 Watercolor and gouache on paper The Robbins Family Collection
While still a teenager, I came to study in yeshiva in New York, as my family lived in Israel. Being without family during the most family-oriented holiday of the year Passover had its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, I had to scramble to find a place that would host me for the holiday. On the other hand, I got to spend the holiday with different people who graciously shared their family Seder with me. It was especially meaningful when I got to spend the holiday with some of American Jewry’s most distinguished and senior rabbis Rabbi Aharon Schec
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Moses Maimonides known variously as Moses ben Maimon, Rambam, the Great Eagle, and Mūsā b. Maymūn was a 12th-century philosopher, scientist, physician, religious thinker, rabbinic scholar, jurist, communal leader, and the most famous Jewish figure of the premodern age.
It is a sign of his incomparable genius that modern Spain, Morocco, Egypt, Israel, and Sephardic Jews at large all lay claim to him. By contrast, Maimonides’ rational and humanistic understanding of Judaism has not always found favor among Jews in Ashkenazi lands even though they acknowledge his supreme mastery of Torah.
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The fast of Esther is the most anticlimactic part of the Jewish calendar. Even as we prepare our Mishloach Manot bags, finalize our costume decisions, make sure we know who we will be having our festive Purim meal with, and preparing for a Megilah reading, comes a fast the fast of Esther. Why? Why place a fast often associated with sadness and mourning right before the celebrations? Furthermore, what are we fasting for? Usually, fasts are yearning for something. Most fasts are associated with the destruction of the Temple and expulsion from Israel. We ask God to forgive our sins, rebuild the Temple, and return us to Jerusalem. What are we fasting for on the fast of Esther?
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Foreword It has become fashionable of late among the leftist elites to accuse the West of pilfering its treasures both physical resources and intellectual innovations from native and minority cultures. The clear moral lesson, we are to understand, is that there is nothing particularly noteworthy or exceptional about Western culture and by extension about America. Instead, we should feel deep shame that our ancestors expropriated the physical and intellectual capital of the peoples we conquered. In this timely and illuminating new pamphlet, “Stealing the West’s Cultural Heritage,” Jihad Watch director Robert Spencer addresses this lie head-on, first debunking the work of “Middle East expert” Diana Darke who claims in a recent book that some of Christian Europe’s most exquisite structures including Notre-Dame and St. Mark’s were inspired by Islamic mosques. Spencer eviscerates Darke’s claims, showing how
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