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This time the cabbie’s name was Mordechai. Moti for short. “Ask me anything,” he said from behind the wheel, after he so graciously accommodated me by stubbing out his cigarette. It turns out he’s a Jerusalemite. Born and raised. Grew up in Bakka, in fact. That’s right, on Reuven Street, that wide boulevard with the […]

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Candlelighting, Readings: Shabbat candles: 8:12 p.m. Torah: Num. 22:2-25:9 Haftarah: Micha 5:6-6:8 Havdalah: 9:19 p.m The narrative of Bilaam and Balak is quite unusual in many respects. It includes a non-Israelite prophet who speaks God’s word, a talking donkey and a foolish king who deeply desires to curse Israel and yet allows Israel to be […]

Gilad Shalit, the 25-year-old Israeli soldier freed by Hamas terrorists in a prisoner exchange in October, thanked the Jewish community here last week for its support during his more than five years of captivity. “I want to thank everybody for their efforts — here in the U.S. and all over the world,” he said in […]

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