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Evacuating the Settlements: God vs. the State of Israel
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Brad Hirschfield
That is how leading yeshiva heads, rabbis and teachers representing the Hesder system, which combines service in the Israeli military with study in rabbinic seminary, are framing the debate about whether or not their students may evacuate West Bank residents from their settlement homes. According to a just released letter by these religious leaders, “Unfortunately,…
Banning Christmas in Jerusalem
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Brad Hirschfield
A group calling itself “Lobby for Jewish Values” is handing out fliers condemning Christmas, pushing for a ban on all public displays of Christmas trees and other “foolish” Christian symbols and asking the public to boycott restaurants and other public institutions which do so. I guess it’s really true – the abused often grow up…
Iran To Build 10 New Enrichment Sites, What’s Proper Response?
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Brad Hirschfield
As Iran announced the construction of 10 new enrichment facilities, each to be at least as large as the current one at Natanz, the magnitude of the “Iran problem” has been significantly ratcheted up. How should the world respond? I have no problem with questions having many possible answers, but when all of them are…
One year after Mumbai Attacks – Time for the Unveiling
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Brad Hirschfield
It takes time to recover, if that is even the right word, from any loss, and even more so when the loss is a violent one. That is one reason why Jewish tradition, at least as practiced in most communities, holds off a year before placing a marker at the grave of the departed. It…
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