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Parashat Ki Tavo 2019
Parasha for the Week: Ki Tavo Deuteronomy 26:1 – 29:8 Haftara for the Week: Isaiah 60:1 - 22 Besorat Yeshua: Mark 8:1 - 13 Overview When Bnei Yisrael dwell in the Land of Israel, its first fruits are to be taken to the Temple and given to the kohen in...
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Jacob's Promise
God Blessed Jacob: Even as Jacob was running from fear of his brother, and the shame of deceiving his father, under the pretext of finding a wife, God came to him in a dream and gave him some wonderful assurances and promises of His love and care for...
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Donkeys
Donkeys are often misunderstood and dismissed as "stubborn." But for those who get to know them well, they are wonderful treasures of sensitivity and strength.
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Israeli Tourism Ministry Reports Record Tourism in 2018
Over 4,120,800 foreign tourists visited Israel in 2018, the Israeli Ministry of Tourism told the Jerusalem Post.
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Germinating Seeds: Tips to Get Started
Seeds, to be completely frank, can be finicky things to deal with.
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Intelligent Design or Random Chaos?
I think the fundamental issue of this controversy has become mired in stereotypes and stubbornness on both sides. “Creationists” and “Evolutionists” have reached a stalemate where no one can convince the other side to even consider their position.
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Koala Bears
It's not by accident time now—to learn a bit about a furry animal who was created to thrive on what is poison to most other creatures!
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If God is Love
Many people seem to struggle with reconciling these two verses: “The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.” Psalm 103:8 “and when the LORD your God has delivered them over to you and you have defeated them, then you must...
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Ethiopian Jews: A Success Story in Israel
A dramatic news story exposed the fact that there are 13 doctoral students of Ethiopian origin this year. I was happy for a short moment, though it then became clear that only 13 is really not OK. There are 10,000 doctoral students, and Ethiopians...
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The Amazing Camel and its Creator
If you ever doubted that God exists, meet the Very Technical, Highly Engineered Dromedary Camel. When I'm hungry, I'll eat almost anything: a leather bridle, a piece of rope, my master's tent, or a pair of shoes.
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7 Mental Health Tips While Social Distancing
Your compliance with being socially distant (being at least six feet from others) and confining yourself to home is, to date, helping North American healthcare systems not become overwhelmed.
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Edith Goldberg
Edith Goldberg spent her early life in Teschenmoschel, a small village near Kaiserslautern, Germany, where she was born in 1928. Her family were farmers living in a small village of about 200 people. The village had a small Jewish community; originally...
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Kosher
The word “kosher” literally means “proper.” When kosher is used to describe food it refers to those foods that are proper to eat. The Bible outlines biblically kosher foods. Biblically kosher foods are described in Leviticus chapter 11.
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Pomegranates
The pomegranate is an interesting fruit known for its many seeds and vivid blood red color.
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Sloth
God designed life-sustaining mechanisms for all His creatures—even the slowest moving—but we humans have off-this-planet-alive insurance!
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Dachau and Yad Vashem
Dachau, Munich Area, Germany The barracks and lavatories were drab grays and browns, concrete and bricks, lifeless, seemingly unfit for human use. One could still run fingers over the “ovens” and through the ashes, and gaze numbly down upon the signs...
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Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
Between July 22 and September 12, 1942, the German authorities deported or murdered around 300,000 Jews in the Warsaw ghetto. SS and police units deported 265,000 Jews to the Treblinka killing center and 11,580 to forced-labor camps.
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Torah-Eve
I would say most people who have read the Torah probably know that Eve was the first person to sin. “And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan. The woman was deceived, and sin was the result.” 1 Timothy 2:14 Many people seem to use this as an...
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Be Eve
I would say most people who have read the Torah probably know that Eve was the first person to sin. “And it was not Adam who was deceived by Satan.
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The Tenth Plague: Death of the First Born
Exo 12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
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