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Isaac Steven HerschkopfThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
“Intolerance of groups is often, strangely enough, exhibited more strongly against small differences than against fundamental ones.” –Moses and...
“If we are to abolish the death penalty, let the murderers take the first step.” Les Guepes, Alphonse Karr (1849) There are few arguments as...
“Family is not an important thing. It’s everything.” – Michael J. Fox (1961-) The Seder is the single most observed Jewish ritual. Nothing...
“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...
“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.” —...
“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...
“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...
“A home is a… stronghold amid life’s storms and stresses, a refuge… a sanctuary.” –Letters and Papers from Prison, Dietrich Bonhoeffer...
“One must drink on Purim until one can’t distinguish between ‘Curse Haman’ and ‘Bless Mordecai’.” – Megillah, 7B, cited in Shulchan...
“You don’t stop laughing when you grow old; you grow old when you stop laughing.” – attributed to George Bernard Shaw (1856 – 1950) There...
“I’ve got a grand memory for forgetting, David.” — Kidnapped, Robert Lewis Stevenson (1886) We often heard our parents say “Yemach Shmo...