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Arguing With the Divine: Belief in God in the Face of Injustice (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Arguing With the Divine: Belief in God in the Face of Injustice (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)
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Spinoza, the Kotzker Rebbe, and Me (Renewing Our Spirit 2012)

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo

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The Seven Pillars of an Ideal Jewish Society

Rabbi Mordechai Bar-Or

Mordechai Bar-Or attended Yeshivat har Etzion, and was ordained by Chief Rabbi Goren in 1984. Mr. Bar-Or received the Avi Chai prize for his work in establishing and directing Elul, the first Beit Midrash for secular and religious Israelis to study…
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Philosophy Versus Personality: Moderate Elements in the Messianic Lore of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Professor Dov Schwartz

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Philosophy Versus Personality: Moderate Elements in the Messianic Lore of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson

Professor Dov Schwartz

Co-sponsored by the Israel and Golda Koschitzky Centre for Jewish Studies at York University.
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New Paths for Ba'alei Teshuva: Part One

Dr. Elliott Malamet

This series of blog posts seeks to discuss, if only preliminarily, the journey of ba’alei teshuvah (loosely defined as those who were not raised in a home of halakhic observance but chose this way of life at some point) and their place within…
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The Hertz Chumash United Us

Rabbi Jay Kelman

During shul this past week, I was reading the notes of the Hertz Chumash, as I often do. This likely puts me in small company as the Hertz Chumash has gone the way—pardon the expression—of the dodo bird. It so happens the shul at which I daven has a…
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Rabbi Meir Soloveichik Presents the Rabbi Joseph and Ruth Kelman z"l Memorial Lectures

Rabbi Meir Soloveichik

Rabbi Joseph Kelman, prominent Toronto rabbi and educator, was the scion of a long line of distinguished rabbis. He was married to Ruth Kelman (nee Friedman) for 45 years, and together, they worked tirelessly for the benefit of Clal Yisrael.…
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Na'aseh v'Nishmah: Accepting Torah through Thick and Thin

Rabbi Baruch Weintraub, Rabbi Moshe Taragin

Join Torah in Motion for an evening of pre-Shavuot learning with RABBI MOSHE TARAGIN, Yeshivat Har Etzion and RABBI BARUCH WEINTRAUB, Yeshiva University Torah MiTzion Beit Midrash Zichron Dov One Text, Two Perspectives
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Our Days Are Numbered

Dr. Elliott Malamet

Mark Steyn put it quite simply in America Alone: “Experts talk about root causes. But demography is the most basic root of all.” Prognostications about the future of any country, race or civilization must begin and end with the hard numbers. Is a…
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