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Aryeh Hurwitz National Anthem at Milwaukee NBA Game - An evening celebrating Friendship with The Friendship Circle of Wisconsin. The Star Spangled Banner Performed by Aryeh Hurwitz, at the Fiserv Forum in Milw...
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Rav Doniel Wolfson: Anti-Draft Violence Is Not the Way of Bnei Torah - As protests over the military draft continue to intensify, criticism is increasingly coming not only from Israel’s secular public and government officials,...6 hours ago
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Halacha Headlines: 6/27/26 – Shiur 566 – Stock Market Investing: How Much Risk Is Too Much? (audio) - ------------------------------------------------------ *Reach thousands of readers with your ad by advertising on Life in Israel* --------------------...13 hours ago
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The First Question - by R. Ephraim Glatt, Esq. Question: After 120, what will a person be judged on first – limmud hatorah or other issues? Short Answer: The poskim debate whet...21 hours ago
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Extended Family #4 - Eli Paley, Mishpacha’s publisher, is a great guy. I say that, having met and conversed with him. He is a responsible iconoclast, carefully staying within...1 day ago
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Reb Ahron Rofeh On The Shtinkus Marinus - The Madanei Yom Tov*1 (Chulin 66b Rosh # 67 sk 5 ) writes, when he was Rov in Vienna, Reb Ahron Rofeh (Doctor) showed him a poisonous fish, caught off t...2 days ago
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Jewish Realtor Brutally Attacked in Toronto as Antisemitic Violence Intensifies Across Canada - A Jewish real estate agent has been brutally assaulted while on his way to meet a client at a Toronto commercial center, marking the latest in a string of ...3 days ago
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Parshas Pinchas: Your Destined Portion - Do you ever get the sense that you’re in the wrong life? Not dramatically wrong — not a crisis — but just… off. Like the job you’re in, the path you’re on,...4 days ago
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Breaching the Walls of History with Postscript - Breaching the Walls of History By Dan Rabinowitz This essay first appeared in the Jewish Review of Books (Spring 2026) and is republished here. Its postscr...1 week ago
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Something Is Missing - Your life is working. You have people you care about. You have work that gets done. You have things you enjoy. And still, more often than you admit, some...1 week ago
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Sign Up to Our Newsletter! - Redux: adjective – resurgence; refers to being brought back, restored, or revived; something familiar presented in a new way. Not to see what no one else h...5 years ago
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Lag Baomer and Chinuch -ל”ג בעומר ומצות חינוך - We recently read פרשת אמור אל הכהנים, where we are taught the important lesson, להזהיר גדולים על הקטנים, that not only gedolim/adults are obligated in the ...7 years ago
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Dvar Torah - Titzave - Rabbi Yitzchok Wolpin - This week we are privileged to read the portion of Titzave. The portion begins with the mitzvah of preparing proper olive oil in order to kindle the Menor...7 years ago
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R' Gil Student's Overview of the Esoteric Vs. Harmonistic Debate and Dr. Slifkin (Corrected Link) - Just before Pesach, I came across Rabbi Gil Student's Overview of the two vastly disparate approaches to the Rambam. Here is his basic outline of the two...
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Tikun Olam vs. Tikun Hameuvas - Many bloggers ostensibly go into blogging to participate in Tikun Olam. They see suffering and write to diminish it, they observe injustice and post t...11 years ago
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Why Do Orthodox Women Need Female Yoatzot? - Let's take a quick survey of the reasons given by Orthodox feminists for the need to train female Yoatzot to answer questions specifically in the realm of ...11 years ago
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TTT :: Sois Osis • Dovid Gabay - So vanilla as to not even be terrible. It's just not...anything. Lyrics are indiscernible, harmonies are haphazard, and yet, this tune almost escaped being...12 years ago
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Signing Off - When I first started blogging, it was before the Asifa. Post-asifa, there arose the question whether I could (and should) continue. Consulting my mentor, w...14 years ago
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A description of, and conversation with the great R' Yisroel Moshe Chazan - Following is a passage from "Nach Jerusalem" by Ludwig Frankl (pg. 4 of translation): I reached, after walking a considerable distance, the stately house o...15 years ago
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This Blog Has Moved - After a great get-together last night, we are ready to move the blog to a new format that has more functionality and is more esthetically pleasing. Please ...
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