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Mother’s Day 2010 – Is It Jewish?
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Brad Hirschfield
How could it not be? That doesn’t mean that it’s also not Christian, Muslim, Atheist, Pagan, Buddhist, etc. It’s not a zero sum thing, as it rarely is in these things. But that is for another time. I know that cynics decry Mother’s Day as modern invention of greeting card companies and florists looking to…
Why I Support A National Day of Prayer, and What Troubles Me About This One
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Brad Hirschfield
Prayer is good. I am not describing to whom it should be offered, or even if it is important that it be offered to some external being at all. I am not touching the issue of in whose name such prayers should be offered when they are shared in public at events like the National…
Whose Holocaust Is It?
By
Brad Hirschfield
April is over, and we have passed through the month of Genocide memorials — the Nazi Holocaust, the genocide in Armenia and the more recent one in Rwanda to name a few. The following article describes the challenge, and the benefit, of balancing the unique aspects of each with the universal issue of genocide. For…
Lag B’Omer 2010: Celebrate Being Kind
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Brad Hirschfield
Sunday May 2, 2010 will also be Lag B’Omer — the 33rd day in the 49 day countdown (mentioned in Leviticus 23:15-16) from Pesach to Shavuot, or Passover to Pentecost if you prefer. According to the Talmud, it was on the 33rd day of the Omer that the students of Rabbi Akiva Stopped dying of…
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