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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 09 October 2009 15:55 |
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There have been numerous examples over the last year of religious leaders causing difficulties for the people that they guided or advised. The most famous amongst them was Barack Obama’s former Pastor Rev. Jeremiah Wright. Obama was forced to distance himself from his pastor after Wright was exposed as making anti-American comments. Then there was the story of John McCain and Pastor John Hagee. After it was alleged that John Hagee made anti-Catholic and anti-Semitic comments, the then Presidential Candidate John McCain publically rejected Hagee’s endorsement.
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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 25 September 2009 13:32 |
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This is the time of year when we are supposed to introspect as individuals. No doubt, however, it would be a good time to examine ourselves as a nation as well. There are many problems facing us as Jews. Anti-Semitism is on the rise all over the world. Iran is getting closer to developing a nuclear bomb and no one seems to have the ability to stop them. The White House is inhabited by a person who is pressuring Israel to act contrary to its long term interests. Jews have been hurt by the fallout of the financial crises and the massive fraud of Bernard Madoff. The list goes on.
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Last Updated on Friday, 25 September 2009 13:35 |
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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:35 |
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Writing in the UK’s Guardian Newspaper this week my friend Dan Rickman quotes a new book by Sol Schimmel that claims that Fundamentalism is characterized by "fear of truth." He then goes on to say that “Orthodox Jews are fundamentalist in their belief in the divine revelation of the Torah to which they cling to unreasonably in the face of evidence from modern Biblical scholarship.”
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Last Updated on Thursday, 10 September 2009 15:38 |
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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 28 August 2009 16:46 |
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was in Germany this week. While there, he visited Wannsee Villa in Berlin the place that the "Final Solution" for the destruction of Europe's Jews was planned in 1942 by Adolf Hitler and leaders of the Third Reich. In the visitors book Netanyahu wrote three words in Hebrew and then translated them into English: “Ams Yisrael Chai – The people of Israel live.”
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Last Updated on Friday, 28 August 2009 16:50 |
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Written by Rabbi Levi Brackman
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Friday, 14 August 2009 13:13 |
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Reading about Jewish communal politics is a favorite past time for British Jews and the UK’s Jewish Chronicle usually does a wonderful job of reporting the community’s foibles. But the most recent UK Synagogue fight beats all of the rest. Except this time the childishness is trounced by the heartless and callous treatment of the rabbi involved.
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Last Updated on Friday, 14 August 2009 13:29 |
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