A Meaning for Meaning – Parashat Yitro
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Warding off Negative Effects – Tetzaveh (Weekly Parsha)
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Is Gene Editing Playing God? – Parshat Beshalach
The current Covid pandemic has a silver lining: It has accelerated research into gene editing techniques that promise to put an end to many lethal hereditary diseases. But should man interfere in the work of God?
The Splitting of the Sea – Beshalach
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Nothing Is Incurable – Parshat Mishpatim
There is no such thing as an incurable disease
The Census – Ki Sisa (Weekly Parsha)
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How the Japanese Saved the Jews – Parshat Yitro
During World War II some 40,000 Jews found themselves under Japanese occupation in Manchuria, China and countries of South East Asia. Virtually all of them survived the war, but the Germans repeatedly pressured the Japanese to implement their "Final Solution." This is a famous story of how The Amshinover Rebbe, zt"l dissuaded the Japanese from complying with Hitler's dictate.
Do You Remember? – Parshat Beshalach
Parshas Beshalach is about memory and forgetting. How can a People who has just witnessed miracles that shook the world—the plagues, the Exodus, the splitting of the sea—only days later, forget? They panic. They complain. They say, “Was it for the lack of graves in Egypt that you took us out to die in the wilderness…?” How can you forget something so overwhelming?
Noting Nature & Nurture – Parashat Mishpatim
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One False Move – Vayakhel & Pekudei (Weekly Parsha)
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