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What Does Judaism Say About Sex?
By
Brad Hirschfield
I was asked that question this week by the Newsweek.WahsingtonPost.com’s On Faith section. And while there is no way to answer that question in a few hundred words, or even with a single answer, there are certain things that we can say, and that could actually help all people to have happier and healthier sex…
Finding Comfort Following Tragedy – Two New Nachamus
By
Brad Hirschfield
The Shabbat after Yom Hashoah (Holocaust Remembrance Day) is always a little bitter-sweet for me. The move from profound tragedy to a taste of the World To Come, as Shabbat is sometimes called is not so simple. How do we let go of the pain without letting go of the sensitivity and awareness it creates?…
This Passover, Bring New Meaning to Parsley and Bitter Herbs
By
Brad Hirschfield
How is this night different from all other nights? This classic inquiry, which opens the Four Questions recited at the Passover Seder focuses on how that meal differs from all other festive family dinners, let alone the regular ones. But how it does so is not the only question upon which to focus at the…
Cursing Jews in the Name of God
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Brad Hirschfield
According to the guests gathered in a Great Neck, Long Island home who came together to celebrate a little girl’s first birthday, Rabbi Mordechai Aderet stormed in to the party and rained down curses like an ancient biblical prophet. Sharon Udasin of the New York Jewish Week describes the scene as follows: ‘After “shrieking Hebrew…
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