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    Rosh Hashanah Musings
    Walking down the street in the late summer days, as the sunlight slowly fades: thoughts about Rosh Hashanah
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    The Minyan long history
    Biblical sources may not define the role of women in public prayers as we are used to think.
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    All the Torah on one foot
    What is the relevance today of the basic rule of "Something that you don’t like to be done to you, don’t do to someone else"? Is this the true essence of Judaism?
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    Remembering the destruction of the Temple; why?
    Year after year, Jews from all over the world fast the ninth of Av as a sign of mourn for the destruction of the Temple. How come, after so many centuries, we still remember this particular event? Above all, what (...)
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    Jewish Mafia and prostitute traffic: Zwi Migdal’s forgotten story
    Buenos Aires, Argentina, 1930 - The big trial had just ended. Judge Manuel Rodriguez Ocampo convicted 108 criminals with long sentences, forever disrupting the activities of the Zwi Migdal, the 30-year old, Jewish-run, most profitable prostitution ring in South America (...)