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The Rabbi Jaffe Blog
http://rabbijaffe.today.com
The Rabbi Jaffe Blog is my home for cathartic opining.
- Added on: Jul 26th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: David Jaffe
- Listed in: Judaism Middle East
- Tags: religion education Israel news leadership judaism
Recent Posts
The Snow… And How to be A Great Person
If you’re living in northeast USA right now your arms are probably as sore as mine are. Hours of shovelling more snow than you’ve ever seen before will do that.You’re also probably sipping hot chocolate and eating hot soup by the ...
Parshat Mikeitz: The Blessing in the Curse
The hero of the parsha is once again the mighty Yosef. Learning sections of the Torah like this are very challenging for me, since I already know the end of the story. Sometimes it’s really hard to imagine what it must have been like to have b...
Parshat Vayeishev: What’s Wrong With a Little Favoritism?
When contemplating last week’s parsha, Parshat Vayeishev, I’m often personally confronted with a seemingly unanswerable question: How could Yaakov (Jacob) have favored one son over the other? Didn’t his lousy parenting essentially ...
The Strangely Jewish YouTube (Jews in the Media Part 7)
So I was creating a PowerPoint to teach about the laws of Chanukah. I wanted to put in some links to songs that were related to the holiday, or to Hallel, which is said each day of Chanukah. My “research” yielded some pretty interestin...
Parshat Vayeishev: A Hero Like Yosef
I wish heroes in the modern world could be like Yosef (Joseph).Ever since I learned the story of this amazing individual I have admired how he had truly developed himself so well that there existed nothing that could phase him. Let’s look at t...
Chanukah Confusion
Maybe somewhere out there in the computer world someone has an answer to a question that’s been burning inside of me lately. Why in the world is the holiday of Chanukah so popular? I know why I love the holiday. What I don’t understand i...
