The Lord blessed me last week with the birth of a great-grandson. As I began writing this article I almost slipped and wrote „another“ great-grandson. I have been blessed many times over with becoming a great-grandfather. But I caught myself and did not write „another“ great-grandchild because the birth of every great-grandchild is unique and special. I come from a generation where I and my peers barely knew grandparents and no one ever imagined seeing a great- grandparent. The fact that great-grandparenthood is almost taken for granted in our current society is really one of the momentous miracles of our time. Much of this achievement has to do with the great strides in…

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SECTION 8 – OLD IDEAS IN A NEW WORLD – JEWS AT THE END OF THE 19TH CENTURY

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OLD IDEAS IN A NEW WORLD – Jews at the End of the 19th Century

1-The 1850’s
2-Haskalah
3-The Volozhin Revolution
4-Rabbi Moses Sofer
5-The Mussar Movement
6-Dispute and Dissemination: Expansion of the Mussar Movement
7-Lovers of Zion
8-The New World
9-The New Anti-Semetism and the Dreyfus Trial
10-Political Zionism

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One of the basic questions raised by the commentators to the Torah as well as by all of Jewish history is determining the true relationship of Jacob and Esau. Is Esau the implacable enemy of Jacob and so has he remained throughout human history? Or, is he only the wayward brother of Jacob who is capable of reconciliation and cooperation in building a better and more just society? This question is been debated in Jewish sources for millennia. The Talmud itself records for us varying and even contradictory opinions regarding the matter. Over the long years of Jewish dispersion as history itself shows, especially in the countries of Europe, Jacob has suffered mightily at the hands of… 

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