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OPINION & COMMENT

Is There Residual Value in the Stock Market Bubble?

Three years ago this month the US stock markets reached a peak. All the major measures of market prices were at the highest level that they had ever reached. Since that pinnacle they have gone way down.

The Compromises of the NRP
by Rabbi Nosson Zeev Grossman

The "dialogue" between the NRP and Shinui has ushered in some suggestions for change in accepted norms, while at the same time compromising on sensitive issues in both matters of religion and the state (just as the "Ne'eman Commission" did in its time concerning matters of "conversions" performed by other heretical movements).

Preparation Is Everything: Thirty Days Before The Chag
by Rabbi Daniel Yaakov Travis

All Ready?

Crispy brown matzos resting underneath an exquisitely embroidered cover on a beautiful seder plate, freshly ground morror, vintage dry wine in crystal goblets next to leather-bound Haggadahs, shiny white kittles, and a table set with fine porcelain and sparkling silver vessels. Mothers and daughters arduously work weeks on end to get the home kosher lePesach.

"We Will Offer the Words of Our Lips Instead of Calves"
by R' Yerachmiel Kram

"Speak to Aharon and to his sons, saying, `This is the law of the sin offering' " (Vayikra 6:18).

PURIM PRESENT
by Rabbi Avi Shafran

Rosh Chodesh Adar Sheni fell this year on March 5. We are, of course, enjoined by Chazal to "increase happiness" in Adar, the month of Purim, when we celebrate and express our gratitude to Hakodosh Boruch Hu for delivering the Jews in ancient Persia from their enemies.


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