Monthly Archives: July 2012

G-d’s Treaty Imprinted on Our Bodies — Bris Milah will survive

Bris, the ritual circumcision as ancient as our people, is under attack internationally and here at home.  It isn’t the first time such has happened.   The Greeks outlawed it, with death penalty for those who performed it.  And, yet, my ancestors, as … Continue reading

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Excerpts from SHIMKA

Some times in life, you have to whet folks’ appetite by giving them a wee taste of something.  There was an outstanding author, Rabbi Dovid Zaretsky, who wrote a staggeringly brilliant work called SHIMKA which is the story about how … Continue reading

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