TweetShare via emailI believe that you learn a lot about a culture from its heroes. If you need evidence that the European High Middle Ages were murderous, brutal and primitive, look at the heroes of the age — they were warriors, not scientists, and so murderous that a healthy dose of historical revisionism is needed …
Monthly Archive: June 2009
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Jun
22
Make a Best Effort, and With G-d’s Help…
TweetShare via emailAt my son’s eighth grade Seudas Preida (lit. “departure meal,” or graduation dinner), each graduate was asked to say a brief thought. My wife gets the credit for finding a very apt thought on this week’s reading. The Torah tells us that the spies went into the Land of Cana’an and came back …
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12
Enhancing Shabbos With Shabbos Tweets
TweetShare via emailAs many already know, the Baltimore JCC has decided to open its Owings Mills branch on Saturday afternoon, reversing a decision to keep it closed on Shabbos 12 years ago. Our own Rabbi Mordechai Dixler suggested that we think about what we can do to promote thinking about the Sabbath, and new Shabbos …
