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When Presidents Wear Yarmulkes
By
Brad Hirschfield
This gallery of US Presidents and those seeking the office, wearing kippot, also known as yarmulkes and skullcaps, is quite amazing. What does it mean that a garment designed to publicly mark its wearer as a Jew, can be found on all of these non-Jews? Could there be more powerful evidence of Jews, including those…
Proof of God’s Existence
By
Brad Hirschfield
The following story from the Chicago Tribune, ‘Jewish clause’ divides a family, state courts weigh in on a man’s will that disinherited any descendant who married a gentile, is proof not only of God’s existence, but that God must love the Jewish people very much, because nothing else explains the ongoing existence of people behaving…
Scripture For Sale
By
Brad Hirschfield
Should kids be paid to complete their homework assignments? This debate continues to surface in parenting magazines, school districts around the nation, and now on the homepage of the Jewish Telegraphic Agency – well, sort of. Turns out that a number of religious educational initiatives aimed at college students are paying participants to explore the…
Kosher Meat Wars Continued
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Brad Hirschfield
Let’s see, we have Rabbis tearing each other apart over kashrut, which is an issue that is totally irrelevant to the vast majority of Jews, the Jerusalem Post, a right-leaning newspaper in Israel publishing the self-serving (and publicly contradicted) words of an American Orthodox rabbi telling us that the technological capacity of the Agriprocessors plant…
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