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Blog Entries by Rabbi Shmuley Boteach from 10/2008

Why Orthodox Youth Are Leaving the Fold

| Posted 10.01.2008 | Healthy Living
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For the branch of Judaism that has long advocated - and rightly so - that education is the key to observance, it is simply unacceptable to see so many youth lost.

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Wall Street's Collapse Means That Jews Can be Known for Values Rather Than Money

| Posted 10.07.2008 | Business
Read More: Rosh Hashanah, Anti-Semitism, Jews, Wall Street Crisis, Wall Street, Money, Business News

On the day after Rosh Hashanah, the front page of the New York Times Business Section published a photo showing nervous Jewish Wall Street traders outside one of the largest Synagogues in New York checking their Blackberries for the latest market news on this.

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Up Against a Wall (Street): The Financial Crisis and Jewish Values

| Posted 10.20.2008 | Healthy Living
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The crisis in the Western world is not financial, but a crisis of values. Isn't that what all our financial experts have been saying -- the collapse was caused by greed and material insatiability?

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Causes of the Collapse

| Posted 10.28.2008 | Healthy Living
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Sadly, religion in America seems incapable of rising to the challenge of giving people inner contentment and pulling them away from insatiable materialism.

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