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Jewish World Review

June 30, 2008
Sometimes the only way to be above things is to admit that we are below them.  —  Rabbi Shraga Silverstein


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light of a life
Remembering the architect of Torah Judaism for the modern world
By Jonathan Rosenblum

The enduring legacy of Rabbi Samson Raphael Hirsch









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war on jihad
Victimized families must not be allowed to dictate policy
By Caroline B. Glick

It is impossible to know precisely how many Israelis will be killed in the future if the Olmert-Hamas deals now on the table are approved. But past experience shows that at a minimum, dozens of Israelis now innocently going about their business will be murdered by the terrorists Israel releases. And at a minimum, one or two Israelis will be abducted by Hamas or Hizbullah or one of their sister terror organizations






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NEW SERIES!
"Thank You/ Gratitude: Formulas, stories and insights"

Few of us realize that cultivating a genuine sense of gratitude will impact on our happiness, our marriage, even on our sense of self-worth. Being ungrateful for the many blessings in our lives distances us from our Creator and spoils our relationships with other people

Today: Blessings Before and after eating

[ JWisdom — Godcast ]


Today: Putting the Spirit Back into Spirituality, Part 2: The Abandoned Child

For too many, religion has become little more than empty ritual performed on "auto-pilot". In this new series, a master teacher mines a thousand-year old holy book -- originally written in the Holy Tongue -- in an effort to help the contemporary believer to imbue faith with thought and, perhaps more importantly, emotion.

New vistas will open. How you view yourself, the Divine and the world around you will be forever changed.

Rigid need not be synonymous with religious

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Think the Bible is only for the holy? Think again! Meet highly successful, functioning folks -- Hollywood screenwriters, musicians, mutual fund managers, CEOs -- who are proud believers and who value their eternal heritage. They attribute their professional successes to the Good Book.

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The Wizard of Id
9 to 5
Andy Capp
Baloo
Bliss
The Born Loser
Bound and Gagged
Bottom Liners
Flo & Friends
Frank & Ernest
The Grizzwells
Herman
Mallard Filmore
Moderately Confused
Momma
One Big Happy
The Other Coast
Prickly City
Shoe
State of the Union



Robert Arial
Chuck Asay
Lisa Benson
Chip Bok
Brian Duffy
Bob Gorrel
Joe Heller
Jerry Holbert
Jimmy Margulies
Rick McKee
Scott Stantis
Dana Summers
Kirk Walters
Gary Varvel
Michael Ramirez

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Next Steps: Elder Matters: Stay ignorant of your rights and nursing-home rules to your detriment

Clinical trials begin this week on new cancer therapy that cured test mice

Dr. Peter H. Gott: Coping with Alzheimer's patient

Frugal Living by Sara Noel: Readers' wisdom

Bruce Williams on JWR: Retiree searches for housing strategy; more


Rachel Raskin-Zrihen: All that springs eternal is not hope

John J. Pitney,Jr.: An Un-Beautiful Mind

Monica Crowley: Wishful Thinking

Julia Gorin: Hey --- Don’t Mess with a Dhimmi!

Judith A. Klinghoffer: Rice to Obama's aid



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Paul Johnson: How to fill a lecture hall, and how to empty it

Argus Hamilton skewers politics and contemporary "culture"

Dave Barry: Toilet water as a weapon? That idea really stinks

Michael Goodwin: Hillary's veep stock is rising

Michael Barone: Why Veeps Now Matter

John H. Fund: No, McCain Isn't ‘Doomed’

Kathryn Lopez: McClintock leads Republican revolution

Roger Simon: Obama will do anything to win e

Nat Hentoff: The great censorship wall of China

David Broder: Dumbing Down the Presidency

Jeff Jacoby: A silver bullet for Obama?

Wesley Pruden: The Court defers to plain language

Dick Morris: Why is Bush entertaining Abu Dhabi Crown Prince?

George Will: McCain's day of repudiation

Mona Charen: The Republic of Kennedy

Bill O'Reilly: Obama's Advantage


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Caroline B. Glick: Victimized families must not be allowed to dictate policy

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Today in Biblical History: King Jeroboam of Israel prevents pilgrimage to Jerusalem

Jonathan Tobin: Real Friends and Real Enemies

Steven Emerson: Kristof: Never Mind the Terrorists

Stratfor Intelligence Briefing: Mediterranean Flyover: Telegraphing an Israeli Punch?

Caroline B. Glick: What were they thinking!?

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Guilty knowledge

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Diploma dilemma

Jeff Jacoby: A world without children

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Man: The Crowning Glory of Creation

Caroline B. Glick: Israel's darkest week

Rabbi Elazar Meisels: The saints who don't come marchin' in

Chris Christoff: Muslim woman demands an apology from Obama after camera snub

Jonathan Tobin: Still Dancing Around Jerusalem

The Kosher Gourmet by Steve Petusevsky: Chilled fruit and vegetable soups

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Baby Einstein

Caroline B. Glick: Bush's rhetoric, Bush's policies

Varda Branfman: Bob Dylan, won't you please come home?

Diana West: Academic dares to question the 'religion of peace'

Rabbi Berel Wein: Trading manna for whine

Caroline B. Glick: Peace with friends

Michael Feldberg: Meet Paul Revere's pal, the Orthodox Jew who played a key role in laying Boston's cultural and business infrastructure

The Kosher Gourmet by Kathy Manweiler: No need to be tempted by Wendy's mandarin chicken salad

Rabbi Avi Shafran: What would Hillel say?

Jonathan Tobin: UNRWA and NGOs: The Real U.N. 'Insult'

Rabbi Pinchas Stolper: Revelation: The basis of faith

Binyamin L. Jolkovsky: Mere hours after becoming Israel's new 'best friend' Obama backtracks on status of Jerusalem

Caroline B. Glick: UN choosing to protect rogue nuclear programs

David Lightman: ow Obama wants to be Israel's newest 'best friend'

Obama's remarks to AIPAC policy conference

The Kosher Gourmet By Ethel G. Hofman: Shavous cuisine: Ruby Fruit Soup, Lokshen Kugel with Cheese, Key Lime Curd, Calsone Casserole Frittata with Wild Mushrooms, Sun-dried tomatoes and Olives, Baked Tilapia with Pepper Cheese Cream and Brown Sugar Shortbread

Jonathan Rosenblum: A different sort of 'religious broadcaster'

Jonathan Tobin: Misgivings on the Road to Damascus

Daniel Pipes: Obama vs. McCain on the Middle East

Everything's Relative: There is a crisis growing in Orthodox synagogues worldwide, reveals Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: Lie to outsmart discriminator?

He writes the songs that make our souls sing: Gavriel Aryeh Sanders interviews Jewish music legend Ben Zion Shenker; includes stirring, uplifting song

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: The Divine's eternal, unconditional love

Yossi Klein Halevi: Who gets the Golan?

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein: McCain, Hagee, and the Earthquake in China

Jonathan Tobin: Rediscovering the Will to Win

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Sometimes even paranoids have something to be paranoid about

Michelle Malkin: Rachael Ray, Dunkin' Donuts and the Keffiyeh Kerfuffle

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Fair fares

Caroline B. Glick: Utopian peace junkies

Rabbi Pinchas Stolper: The Mystery of Lag B'Omer

Caroline B. Glick: Assad's week of triumph

Jeff Jacoby: Misunderstanding marriage

Judith A. Klinghoffer: A hero's motivation

Jonathan Tobin: Finding Appeasers in the Mirror

The Kosher Gourmet By Steve Petusevsky: From Sicily: Potato and tomato salad with chick peas, almonds and mint AND sweet-and-sour eggplant

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Ortho-freaks?

Caroline B. Glick: Obama's unique appeasement style

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Transparency in fundraising

Mark Silva: Israel's 'best friend' expresses hope for outline of Palestinian state by the end of his term

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Torah talk 'lost in translation'?

Diana West: Israel is not a freedom franchise, Mr. President

Caroline B. Glick: Understanding Hizbullah's power play

Jonathan Tobin: Finding a Reason to Do Nothing

Oline H. Cogdill: Jesse Kellerman paints art world tale in brilliant strokes in 'The Genius'

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Snitching to the IRS

The Kosher Gourmet by Jill Wendholt Silva: Spring greens with fennel and herbs

Jonathan Mark: For pro-Israel voters, Obama's middle name should be the least of their concerns

Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: The Leaker Shield Act

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Mark Steyn: Israel's 'doom' could also be Europe's

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Reverence, Yes; Worship, No

Mona Charen: Did Israel Drive Out the Arabs 60 Years Ago?

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Israel at 3,500+

Jonathan Tobin: Still Fighting the Same War

Steven Plaut: How ‘nakba’ proves the fiction of a Palestinian Nation

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Israel is irrelevant to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict

Dion Nissenbaum: Latest Olmert scandal could derail efforts to force Israel's compromises

Caroline B. Glick: Anti-Zionism at 60

The Kosher Gourmet By Ethel G. Hofman: Smorgasbord featuring the taste and essence of the Jewish homeland

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Busy work

Jonathan Mark: Remarkable half-century old Mike Wallace interview with Abba Eban puts current anti-Israel sentiment into perspective

Rabbi Berel Wein: Rote religiosity

Caroline B. Glick: Whitewashing Hamas

David Zwiebel: Faith communities can learn from Orthodox Jews in stimulating private philanthropy for religious education

George Friedman and Peter Zeihan of Stratfor: The Shift Toward an Israeli-Syrian Agreement

Jonathan Tobin: Pennsylvania's Democratic slugfest may leave some Jewish votes up for grabs

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Daniel Pipes: Barack Obama's Muslim Childhood

Joel Brinkley: On human rights, the U.N. once again strikes out

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: I'm often stuck in the doctor's waiting room for hours! Doesn't he owe me something for my wasted time?

Steven Emerson: New U.S. government policy advises agencies to avoid using some of the very same words that make up terror groups' names

Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg: Schadenfreude isn't kosher for Passover --- or at any other time

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Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: The successful failure

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Connie Ogle: An intricate game of a novel

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Caroline B. Glick: Obama the Savior

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Jonathan Tobin: A Prayer for Sderot's Children

Ethel G. Hofman: Sumptuous Seder

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Frank J. Gaffney, Jr.: Jimma, tyranny's enabler

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Jonathan Tobin: Forget the Fun and Games!

Rabbi David Gutterman: A Mystery in the Middle East

Caroline B. Glick: Why Ahmadinejad smiles

Stratfor Intelligence Briefing by George Friedman: A Mystery in the Middle East

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Michael Feldberg: An all but forgotten Colonial doctor who put his Jewish values before his life

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's "Everything's Relative" gets philosophical

Caroline Glick: Covering for the enemy

Elliot B. Gertel: 'House' goes Hasidic

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: I have a translating business. Recently someone asked me to translate some financial documents that are clearly forged. Should I agree?

Jonathan Rosenblum : Israel is unwittingly helping to fuel the international campaign of delegitimization against it

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: The Mystery of Suffering

Caroline B. Glick: Fear of democracy

Rabbi Y. Y. Rubinstein: Parents --- and the children who would be them

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Mitch Albom: Child abuse, disguised as faith

Jonathan Tobin: Unreasonable Accommodations

Caroline B. Glick: America's coalition confusion

Cal Thomas: Conversion: A one-way street?

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Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: No-goodniks

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Michael Feldberg: 'I am a Jew, I am a Republican and I am poor'

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's "Everything's Relative": Your Official Jewish Guide to Changing Seasons

Dennis Prager: Why do 'Palestinians' get much more attention than Tibetans?

Libby Lazewnik: Looking through the two-way glass

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Rabbi Avi Shafran: Accidents don't happen

Bob Tyrrell: Why is that good deeds toward the Palestinians always go unrewarded?

Paul Greenberg: Stop revising the prayerbook!

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Youssef M. Ibrahim: Is the honeymoon over between Arab militancy and the Palestinian cause?

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Rebate or Kickback?

Andy Borowitz: Obama Converts to Judaism

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: How not to be humble

Caroline B. Glick: Why is 'Israel's best friend' pressuring the Jewish State to act recklessly?

Victor Davis Hanson: The tired Gaza two-step

Jeff Jacoby: Slaughter, jubilation, and the 'peace process'

The Kosher Gourmet by Jill Wendholt Silva: Traditional Italian eggplant dish, delicious as ever; less calories

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: In defense of messiness

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Who is in control?

Barry Rubin: Fear and gullibility as weapons

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Who is in control?

Caroline B. Glick: Condi's echo-chamber

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Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's Jewish Gen-X strip transcends cultures and age groups: Everything's Relative

The Kosher Gourmet by Jim Coleman and Candace Hagan: Brie en croute with almonds and blackberries; Baked brie with jalapeno jelly and pecans

Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein: Moderation in a Higher Place

Caroline B. Glick: Sound and fury signifying incompetence

Rabbi Dr. Abraham J. Twerski: Wise-hearted

Caroline B. Glick: The curse of the moderates

Rabbi Yonason Goldson: If you could have any superpower, which would you choose?

Rabbi Tzvi Rosen: Vinegar: Sour Grapes or Sweet Success?

Jordan "Gorf" Gorfinkel's Jewish Gen-X strip transcends cultures and age groups: Everything's Relative

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Self-Respect or Self Pride

Jonathan Tobin: Put It Back on the Table

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: The world is not the Divine's place

Caroline B. Glick: Kosovo's stark warning

Amy H. Lederman: Lessons from a hummingbird

Judy Gruen: Time for a 'Jewish Mother' President

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Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Grasping greatness --- and its limitations

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Modern matrimony

Michael Feldberg: Vindication of an American Jewish Patriot

The Jewish Ethicist By Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Unfair Zoning

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Just how holy is life?

Rabbi S. Binyomin Ginsberg: Why Test?

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Caroline B. Glick: Terrorism pays

Daniel Pipes: How to Transfer Gaza to Egypt

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Daniel Pipes: Give Gaza to Egypt

Frida Ghitis: Why Gaza suffers

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: How far must one go to return a lost object?

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Between Ten and Seven: A spiritual distinction

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: Understanding the dynamics of attraction: If you are second-guessing your marriage, consider this

Caroline B. Glick: The audacity of truth

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Q: Should the almost-poor be eligible for credit and discounts?

Richard Z. Chesnoff: To face this rising threat, Israel must look in the mirror

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Rabbi Yonason Goldson: Spiritual gridlock

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Cal Thomas: Misplaced faith

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Deduct distractions?

Libby Lazewnik: Up the Mountain

Rabbi Avi Shafran: TMI

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Rabbi Avraham Pam: The great aren't exempt from being grateful

The Kosher Gourmet By Linda Gassenheimer: Sicilian eggplant dish, roast lamb make fine winter meal

Rabbi Avi Shafran: Blogistan

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: Flawed Freebies

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Leadership and rebellion

Andrew Silow-Carroll: ¡Ask a Jew!

The Jewish Ethicist by Rabbi Dr. Asher Meir: When doing-the-right-thing may harm another

Amy H. Lederman: Showing our children how to give from the heart

Rabbi Avraham Pam: Where and why Joseph went wrong

Tehilla R. Goldberg: Two Jews jammin'

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Do 'clothes make the man'?

Dr. Debby Schwarz Hirschhorn: Tell Your 'Inner Child' to Just Keep Out of This

Rabbi Hillel Goldberg: Can a person converse with the Divine?

Amy H. Lederman: I Was Cursed to be a Teacher

Andrea Simantov: A pear for my father

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Revolution through one word

Jonathan Tobin: ‘My son, the Navy Captain’

Youssef M. Ibrahim: Hundreds of Millions to rebuild jihad training grounds!?

Colleen Mastony: Kosher fish tale

Richard Di Dio: New book takes us on the trail of objects taken from Second Temple

Youssef M. Ibrahim: The Islamist Trojan Horse is already in place

Rabbi A. Henach Leibowitz: Divine vindictiveness?

Rabbi Abraham J. Twerski: Equality before the Divine

Jonathan Rosenblum: A new Orthodoxy is taking root in the most unlikely of places

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: Introduction to the Divine

Estee Rieder: What's in a name?

Rosally Saltsman: About Face

Youssef M. Ibrahim: We routinely speak of failed governments and failed societies overseas. So what are we doing about ‘failed’ Muslim communities here?

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo: How Jewry actually survives

Jonathan Rosenblum: Observant Jews as robots?

Andrew Silow-Carroll: Starbucks and the Jewish future

Jonathan Rosenblum: Confessions of a 'smart kid'

J-Rhythms with Avraham Rosenblum: JWR's cutting-edge music program showcasing performers -- singers, song writers, musicians, and bands -- who learn and live the Torah lifestyle

Dennis Prager: Why are so many Jews liberal?

Haytullah Gaheez: Out of money? Sell your daughter

Zev Chafets: Why not say it bluntly? Islam is an aggressive, violent political ideology

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT? II: A response to our critics

Jackie Mason & Raoul Felder: Islam is a religion of WHAT?

Dennis Prager: Explaining the Arab-Israeli conflict through numbers

Larry Elder: What you need to know about the 'religion of peace'

Larry Elder: What you need to know about the 'religion of peace', Part II

Soraya Sarhaddi Nelson: Culture of death? Palestinian girl's murder highlights growing number of ‘honor killings’ (SICKENING!)

Mortimer B. Zuckerman: Graffiti On History's Walls (MUST-READ!)

Fiamma Nirenstein: How I became an ‘unconscious fascist’ (MUST-READ!)

Bill Bennett, Jack Kemp, and Jeane Kirkpatrick: Twenty Facts about Israel and the Middle East (IMPORTANT!)





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