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In the course of less than a decade, my mother went from independent living to assisted living and, following one quick event, to a skilled nursing facility that specialized in dementia. Her path from enjoying her evening cocktail to having to be fed by family and aides is a path now shared by many of […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Candles: 7:20 p.m. (Fri.); 7:22 p.m. (Sun.); 8:24 p.m. (Mon.) Torah: Exodus 33:12-34:26 (Sat.); Ex. 13:17-15:26; Num. 28:19-25 (Mon.); Deut. 15:19-16:17 (Tue.); Num. 28:19-25 (Sat.-Tue.) Haftarah: Ezekiel 37:1-14 (Sat.); II Samuel 22:1-51 (Mon.); Isaiah 10:32-12:6 Havdalah: 8:22 p.m. (Sat.); 8:25 p.m. (Tue.) The quality of hipazon (haste), which characterizes several of the mitzvot […]

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Ethan Bronner of The New York Times feels “exasperated” (according to Gary Rosenblatt’s April 4 article, “Seeking The Middle In The Middle East”) that he has been accused of anti-Israel bias. He then proceeds to mouth precisely the kind of biased statements that have elicited such criticism. According to Bronner, a major cause of the […]

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