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Sustenance from the Source

City living can cause social fragmentation and environmental degradation.

Psychoanalyzing Jewish Humor

What Freud & his disciples said about Jewish comedy.

Shabbat as Social Reform

Rabbis and Jews argued for a five-day work week in order to be able to observe Shabbat.

Joel: Misplaced Prophet of the Locust Plague

Joel vividly portrays the dependence of human life upon God's favor.

Medieval Jewish Responses to Suffering & Evil

The philosophers and mystics of the Middle Ages suggested an array of solutions to the problem of suffering.

Jewish American Life

American-Jewish history and culture.

LaGuardia 1, Hitler 0

Fiorello LaGuradia was a defender of the Jews and a strong opponent of Hitler.

The Lynching of Leo Frank

Falsely accused of murdering a girl, a Jewish man was killed by a white mob in Georgia in 1915.

Accidentally 1%

“There will be no poor among you…” – Deut. 15:4Last night I was stranded in a Mercedes E Class in ...

Never Alone, Never Lonely

Books have always fascinated me, even from the very earliest days of my childhood. As the child of Jewish intellectuals ...

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