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

Rabbi Shmuley Boteach | Posted 11.20.2008 | Living

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Rabbi Shmuley Boteach

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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Defying Despair: Why I Believe

Sharon Brous | Posted 11.16.2008 | Living

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Sharon Brous

Faith is not about hatred and exclusion -- those are perversions of the deepest religious truths. The religious life is not about pretending to know with certainty, it is about living with deep humility.

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Freedom of Speech, Satire, and Revisionist History...

Marcia G. Yerman | Posted 07.26.2008 | Media

Read More: The Holocaust, Freedom of Speech, The New Yorker Cover, David Irving, Christopher Hitchens, Deborah Lipstadt, Revisionist History, Holocaust Deniers, Truth, Socialists, Media News
Marcia G. Yerman

Walking home on the Upper East Side on Wednesday night, I saw a cluster of ten policemen and two patrol cars. It seemed quite unusual for a quiet block. "What's going on?" I asked.

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