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The Four Foundational Harms of a Phone-Based Childhood

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In this text, I describe the four foundational harms of the phone-based childhood. These are profound changes to childhood caused by the rapid technological...

FOUR NORMS TO DEAL WITH CELL PHONES ADDICTION

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I offer these ideas for reforms, all of which aim to reverse the two big mistakes we've made: overprotecting children in the real world...

How And Why The New York Times Ignored The Holocaust

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THE ONLY THING NECESSARY FOR THE TRIUMPH OF EVIL IS FOR POWERFUL MEN TO DO NOTHING  WHEN JEWS WERE OBSESSED TO BE GERMANS... Many times I...

TEFILA COMPANION

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Dear Friends , these are the recordings of some of the most important Tefilot. The audios were made, mainly, for learning the Tefila, but they...

Clint Eastwood, Shlomi and the Jewish people

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November 21st, 2014 Two days ago, as Coty and I were leaving 'Mamila', near the Old City we met Shlomi, a young 'cool' Israeli taxi...

SHABBAT: Having guests and parenting, by Coty Bitton

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This Friday you can feel a sense of excitement at our home. My husband told me that this Shabbat we are hosting a group...

BEHALOTEKHA: More therapy or more responsibilities?

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American Jewish journalist Abigail Shrier, in her 2024 book Bad Therapy, does not deny that therapy can help, or even save lives. Her warning...

BEHAALOTEKHA: The anxiety of having it all

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Clinical anxiety, and the other kind There are two kinds of anxiety, and they should not be confused. One is clinical. It has a real...

NASO: Sotah and the Art of Marital Fidelity

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The trust between husband and wife is one of the foundations on which a family stands—and infidelity is one of the few things powerful...

NASO: The blessing of the Kohanim

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Birkat Kohanim is the blessing that HaShem bestows upon us through the Kohanim. This blessing appears in our Perasha, NASO and consists of three...

A Wedding at Mount Sinai

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About 3500 years ago, the people of Israel, in the Sinai Desert, experienced the most important event in human history: a formal alliance —...

Understanding Eruv Tavhsilin

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It is permitted to cook on a Jewish holiday (Yom Tob), as we learn from Shemot 12:16: "…No work shall be done on these...

How was Shabuot celebrated in Jerusalem?

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רֵאשִׁית, בִּכּוּרֵי אַדְמָתְךָ, תָּבִיא בֵּית ה 'אֱלֹקיך Shabu’ot, the day in which we celebrate the giving of the Tora to Bnei Israel and the beginning...

All you need to know about Shabuot in one word

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Most Jewish communities observe five minhagim (traditions) on Shabu'ot. To remember these customs, we use the Hebrew word אחרית     A / CHA /...

My most favorite Mishna

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בֶּן זוֹמָא אוֹמֵר: אֵיזֶהוּ חָכָם? הַלּוֹמֵד מִכָּל אָדָם, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר מִכָּל מְלַמְּדַי הִשְׂכַּלְתִּי. אֵיזֶהוּ גִבּוֹר? הַכּוֹבֵשׁ אֶת יִצְרוֹ, שֶׁנֶּאֱמַר טוֹב אֶרֶךְ אַפַּיִם מִגִּבּוֹר וּמשֵׁל בְּרוּחוֹ...

Rabbi Akiva and Jerusalem of Gold (Yerushalayim Shel Zahav)

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The most famous song of modern Israel is, without question, Yerushalayim shel Zahav — Jerusalem of Gold — composed in 1967 by Israeli singer...