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Sometimes Prayer Is Not Enough — This Week Was One Of Those Times
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Brad Hirschfield
New York is still shaking and so is much of the Jewish world. Little Leiby Kletsky of blessed memory, was buried Wednesday evening, but nothing has been put to rest. How could it be otherwise? The details of the horrific murder of the 8 year-old child can be found elsewhere, for those who want them.…
Medieval Jewish Traditions, both Culinary and Spiritual, Continue in Today’s New York Times
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Brad Hirschfield
I love the New York Times’ Dining section. Each Wednesday, I look forward to reading the articles and reviews, most of which food and drink that I can’t eat because it’s not kosher. But not consuming and nor appreciating are two entirely different things. In fact, there is a long-standing debate in rabbinic tradition about…
Larry David’s Jewish Universe
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Brad Hirschfield
Like the old Levy’s rye bread commercial said, “You don’t have to be Jewish to love Larry”. Okay, they said “to love Levy’s”, but you get the point. And it’s true, that you don’t need to be Jewish to love either, but in the case of the Larry David Show, whose eighth season on HBO…
Stephen Hawking says “there is no heaven”. Is he right?
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Brad Hirschfield
World famous cosmologist and physicist Stephen Hawking declared “there is no heaven”. Whether he is correct or not is not something anyone can know for sure. We can believe as we choose, but we cannot “know” as a matter of fact, either way. Having made that claim, I will probably annoy both some of those…
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