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Koshermentary
Produced by Dovid Taub & Jonathan Goorvich
Join Rabbi Kadoozy and Jono as they tour a cookie dough factory and a juice factory in this wacky documentary about the production of Kosher food. |
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Feivel's Bad Day
By Tzvi Freeman
To become a bigger something, you gotta be a nothing in between. |
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There’s No Other Reality But G-d
By Ben-Tzion Krasnianski
G-d spoke and the world came to be. If G-d would cease to continuously recreate the miracle of creation, the world would cease to be. |
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Ten Minutes to Change Worlds
As a college student in 1970, Mr. Freddy Hager was in New York, when he was unexpectedly
called in for an audience with the Rebbe. |
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The Kosher Kitchen
One of the fundamental principles of a Kosher home is keeping Milk and Meat separate; from pots & pans and cutlery to stoves and sinks. Plus: The laws of Koshering utensils previously used for non-kosher foods. |
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The Sacred Barbecue
By Lazer Gurkow
The next time you attend a backyard barbecue and see the meat sizzling on the grill, know that your soul is salivating as well. |
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The Kabbalah of the Ecosystem
By Rochel Holzkenner
For a human to act like an animal is not only a pathetic squander of talent, but a disservice to animals who expect to become part of a higher unit through us... |
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A Choice of Choices
By Yanki Tauber
There is good and there is evil, blessing and curse, light and darkness; now choose. Not much of a choice, is it? So what's all this talk about "freedom of choice"? |
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The Philanthropic Pauper
By Mendel Kalmenson
"Everyone is obligated to give charity. Even people supported by charity must contribute from what they receive." A law that seems radical on the one hand, and absurd on the other... |
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In a Nutshell
About two mountains, from which blessings and curses are announced; a home for G-d, and the difference between holiness and chosenness; meat, blood, false prophets, idolaters, kosher signs, tithes, pilgrimages, and the special Jewish idea of charity |
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What's So Terrible about Idolatry?
By Tzvi Freeman
I don't mean massive temples with human sacrifices. What about a civilized idolater, in the privacy of his own home? What's so terrible? |
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The Legalities of Destruction
Based on the teachings of the Lubavitcher Rebbe
According to a law set forth in our Parshah, G-d's destruction of the Holy Temple in Jerusalem was not just a tragic event -- it also may have been illegal... |
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Lecha Dodi
A completely new approach to translating this Shabbat greeting song |
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MP3s and the Good Enough Revolution
By Arnie Gotfryd
Are you investing your life savings based on wikinformation? Are you treating a fatal condition based on a health blog you found? Are you calling a once-in-a-lifetime business contact on a VOIP line? |
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My Jewish Soul was Crying
By Karen Joyce Kleinman
No matter how much I talked the talk and walked the walk, my inner soul was crying. I married a non-Jewish man and had two sons. My soul cried out to me that they are Jewish! |
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The Purpose of Our Disease - Re'eh
By Rabbi Ben A.
In choosing recovery over active addiction, we are not battling between two equal opposing forces. It's nothing more than a choice that exists in order to give meaning to our lives as sober people. |
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On Guard Grandma
By Beryl Tritel
The relationship between mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law is usually pretty tricky. There are a lot of underlying feelings for both women as they try to maintain importance in the same man's life... |
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"I Love You"
By Mirish Kiszner
Even in the first days of a child’s life, there is a noticeable difference between infants who have been hugged and touched by their mothers and those who have not. |
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The Snake in the Wall
Talmud, Shabbat 156b
"On the day your daughter enters the bridal chamber," the astrologers said to Rabbi Akiva, "a snake will bite her and she will die" |
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A Cheder in Siberia
A conversation with Reb Mendel Futerfas
To my right sat my friend Berl, and to my left my friend Zalman. Yossel sat in front of me. The melamed was tall, with stern eyes, but with a warm and loving smile. |
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Fifty Year Old Honey
By Yerachmiel Tilles
The entire town would be paying attention to the new rabbi's first ruling. Everyone was sure to wonder: Why is the law of the Torah so opposite to common sense? |
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A History of the Charity Box
Besides the many commandments in the Torah instructing us to love our fellow man and be kind to the poor in specific ways, there is also an explicit commandment to "open your hand" to the poor. |
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Charity During Times of Economic Difficulty
By Naftali Silberberg
Is it indeed inappropriate to scale back on charitable disbursements when times are tough, when we are curtailing our spending in so many other lifestyle areas? |
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Finishing vs. Winning
By Angela Goldstein
I wanted the college degree, nice house, a great spouse, plenty of kids, and wonderful relationships. Who doesn’t? I don’t think it’s wrong to want and strive for all those things, but it also begs the question that when all is said and done, are you truly a winner? |
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The Fragility of Life
By Tzippora Price
On a night intended to commemorate our eleventh anniversary, and our treasured connection to each other, we celebrate instead the kindness of strangers, and the delicate and fragile strands of life's web... |
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Shabbat Meals
Central to Shabbat are sumptuous meals – Friday night and Shabbat lunch – when families can bond and be inspired. We delight in the Shabbat by partaking of appetizing foods and drinks. |
