Naso 5766 — Radical Rabbis
The rabbis of two thousand years were a real bunch of radicals. When they were confronted with something in the Torah that conflicted with the sense of values and ethics they learned from the Torah...
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This is a d’var Torah I gave at Rabbis for Human Rights annual meeting yesterday. At the beginning of this week’s Torah portion we have a simple commandment: וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁמִינִי יִמּוֹל בְּשַֹר...
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Rabbis Against “Price Tags”
Early Tuesday morning extremist settlers set a mosque on fire in the West Bank town of Mughayar. Graffiti they left at the site explictly said it was a “price tag” for the Israeli government’s...
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Random roadblocks
Do these three guys look dangerous? Apparently, the IDF seems to think they are some kind of subversives or something. In actuality they are Rabbi Arik Ascherman, Director of Special Projects for...
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