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Spring 2003

  • Pride &  pain

    Pride & pain

    Written by Dovi Scheiner

    Usually, a person dies, and then their soul shines down on us from heaven. It is rare that a spirit shines down on us from heaven, and then dies.

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  • A Triumphant Experiment

    A Triumphant Experiment

    Written by Rabbi Zvi Konikov

    From the moment I met Ilan Ramon some 15 months ago, there was an instant feeling of warmth, love, and total informality between us-we were like brothers, laughing, joking, and hugging each other.

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  • Yearning For A Hug

    Yearning For A Hug

    Written by Yosef Y. Jacobson

    In the rest of the world, people pursue meaning; in you, Jerusalem, meaning pursues people.

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  • Insecure Unsecure

    Insecure Unsecure

    Written by Rabbi Manis Friedman

    The entire Jewish world is uneasy. Jewish hearts and souls are distraught that Israel’s efforts to protect her citizens have become controversial, misunderstood, and even condemned.

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  • A Kosher Tree

    A Kosher Tree

    Written by Lisa Haroush

    The restaurant was designed over the course of a few years, with each antique carefully collected in the spirit of King Ludwig of Bavaria, the mad king who dedicated much of his life to building castles filled with opulent treasures.

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  • The General’s Rebbe

    The General’s Rebbe

    Written by Sara Levy

    With the dust from the Six-Day War still settling, Ariel Sharon took his wife, Lily, and eleven-year-old son, Gur, to visit newly liberated Jerusalem.

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  • The Snapple Lady

    The Snapple Lady

    Written by Wendy Kaufman

    The story behind the smile.

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  • All My Children

    All My Children

    Written by Jill Mannie

    In May of 2002, an appeal was made for volunteers from the Diaspora to help out in Israel during ongoing terrorist attacks. Jill (Yocheved) Mannie, of Johannesburg, South Africa describes her response to this call.

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  • Packing up at Passover

    Packing up at Passover

    Written by Rabbi Don Yoel Levy OB"M

    Choosing the right hotel for your Passover getaway

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  • Texas Schindler

    Texas Schindler

    Written by Ted Roberts

    I’m in a doctor’s waiting room in Huntsville, Alabama, the very buckle of the Bible Belt. I’m leafing through episodes in the life of Elisha, the Prophet, instead of reading about bodily improvements in Cosmopolitan. The Book of Books sits right there on the coffee table along with its trendy companions.

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  • Conscientious Objector

    Conscientious Objector

    Written by Ruth Benjamin

    The atmosphere sparked with intensity. A Chassidic gathering was taking place in Czarist Russia, an inspired group session led by spiritual giants, where all participants bathed their souls in the warm glow of Jewish mysticism.

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  • A Kosher Mouth

    A Kosher Mouth

    The saintly Rabbi Yaakov Yitzchak of Pshischah once sent his disciple Rabbi Simcha Bunem on a journey without telling him the purpose for his travels.

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Spring 2003

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Pride & pain

A Triumphant Experiment

Yearning For A Hug

Insecure Unsecure

A Kosher Tree

The General’s Rebbe

The Snapple Lady

All My Children

Packing up at Passover

Texas Schindler

Conscientious Objector

A Kosher Mouth

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