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Ask Rabbi Zalman: What is This Tisha B’Av Thing?

Check out TC Jewfolk’s column for the questions you were afraid to ask in Hebrew school. The first question for Rabbi Zalman? What’s with this sad Tisha B’av holiday? Asks “Jewish Camp Alum.”

Written by Rabbi Zalman Bendet on 24th July 2012

What Must Be Said… The Jewish "Audacity of Hope"

The word “Chutzpah” has crept into the English vernacular but describes a distinctly Jewish characteristic…It is this Chutzpah – the “audacity of hope”- that is the secret to Jewish immortality.

Written by Rabbi Zalman Bendet on 1st May 2012

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