In a press release from May of this year, the Carter Center wrote: The nonpartisan 2005 Commission on Federal Election…
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My father-in-law of blessed memory taught Talmud and Rabbinics in Berlin until 1940. He was there as Germany’s Jewish community…
The year I began my rabbinic studies in Jerusalem, a full-fledged war broke out on Yom Kippur. My fellow students…
After declaring that all are endowed by nature and God with inalienable rights, the most important of which are the…
Elmer Wheeler, who billed himself as the World’s Greatest Salesman, used to teach, “Don’t sell the steak, sell the sizzle.”…
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