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An Honored Seder Guest: Eight Decades Later

“Earth, receive an honoured guest; (a Holocaust victim) is laid to rest.” In Memory of W.B. Yeats. W.H. Auden (1940) Their name was pronounced...

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

MLB – Major League B’Omer: The Annual Arrival of Baseball

“But on the Jewish New Year when Hank Greenberg came to bat and made two home runs off pitcher Rhodes, they cheered like mad for that.”  —...

23.03.2026 30

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5 Questions about Rabbi Bob Dylan Zimmerman: Is God On His Side?

“My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side…” – Abraham Lincoln (1809 -1865) There are many...

20.03.2026 40

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Growing Up With Israel Through Its Songs

“For without victory, there is no survival.” -Winston Churchill, House of Commons (May 13, 1940) I was born less than two years after Israel. We...

10.03.2026 40

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The Holiest Sanctuary: Where The Sun Always Shines

“A home is a… stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge… a sanctuary.” –Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer...

05.03.2026 60

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Distinguishing Healthy From Unhealthy: Jews and Alcohol

“One must drink on Purim until one can’t distinguish between ‘Curse Haman’ and ‘Bless Mordecai’.” – Megillah, 7B, cited in Shulchan...

23.02.2026 80

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‘May God Smile Upon You’: A Healthy Laugh

“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.” – attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) There...

19.02.2026 50

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A Grand Memory for Forgetting

“I’ve got a grand memory for forgetting, David.” — Kidnapped, Robert Lewis Stevenson (1886) We often heard our parents say “Yemach Shmo...

17.02.2026 70

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‘Narishkeit!’: Mourning the Black-Jewish Alliance Decay

07.02.2026 60

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

The Madding Crowd: Understanding Terrorists’ Mad Mindset

05.02.2026 50

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

The Hands of God: Diamonds Glowing in Darkness

22.01.2026 80

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Dugma Dogma: Patterned Prisons

20.01.2026 40

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

‘Thy Neighbor’s Blood’: Alarming Assault Weapons

16.01.2026 40

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

An Evening At Schmelky’s – A Dining Disaster in One Act

21.12.2025 30

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf

Nes Godol Hoya Shom – A Great Miracle Happened There

19.12.2025 80

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Rabbi Steven Spielberg – A Colorblind Visionary

16.12.2025 70

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I Don’t Hate Jews, But… A Historical Perspective

05.11.2025 30

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Isaac Steven Herschkopf