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Interview with Malcolm Hoenlein: Warning Bells in America

"An extreme Leftist Jew is no novelty. We are familiar with several such Leftist precedents, as in Russia, Germany and other places. Jews were an inseparable part of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia and Communism, and elsewhere. This doesn't mean that the extreme leaning of the Left today, including blatant expressions of anti-Semitism, is less serious because of it."

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Nobility and Corruption: The Background to Rabin's Resignation in 1977

Last week the wife of prime minister Netanyahu was allowed to make a deal in a long-standing legal case against her. Though leaks in the case that were reported in the press throughout the years that the investigation and the case dragged on suggested that it showed criminal corruption on the part of Sarah Netanyahu, the nature of the deal finally reached was typical of cases in which the infraction was minor.

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The Key to Torah Success — Material Contentment and Love

Part II

Yesodos

In the first part of the discussion about success in Torah learning, R' Michel Yehuda discussed the life of learning Torah mitoch hadechak — while living in a condition of material deprivation. He explained that in this state, it is as if one receives his wisdom directly from Hashem yisborach. He talked of the difficult material conditions that prevailed in yeshivos in the days he was young in Europe, but how such things as having no food on Sundays had no effect on the level of Torah learning, and such conditions produced true greatness in Torah. Importantly, he suggested that today one can "simulate" that condition by attaching no value to material pleasures and sets Torah study as his main aim in life. He quoted the Chofetz Chaim as saying that the seforim he owned were acquired with money that was time that is in turn life itself.

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HaRav Avigdor Miller: The Rov Who Turned Baalebatim Into Bnei Yeshiva

by M. Samsonowitz

Part III

How the Thursday Night Shiur Began

Although Rav Miller's accomplishments between his wide variety of shiurim, shul life and writings were almost in the realm of the supernatural, his fame spread through the world in the wake of his famous Thursday night shiur.


When is Machlokes Considered Like Sholom?

by HaRav Yehoshua Rosenberg

It is one of the wonders of our Holy Torah, one of its hidden secrets, something that stems from its inner essence, that the interpretation of Rashi on a posuk that we studied in the dawn of our youth accompanies us the rest of our life, even though we may have meanwhile grown to be Torah giants and have plumbed its hidden treasures. Its understanding, nonetheless, does change and comes to fit each time and age according to one's individual spiritual world.


Economics and Hashgochoh

by Mordecai Plaut

Modern economists can measure the economy pretty well, at least in general terms, but they cannot always explain it.




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