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Articles by Judy Taubes Sterman
Jewish Review of Books
On Friday, September 12, 1941—at the height of the war, just ten days before the Jewish New Year—the rabbis of Jerusalem received an urgent telegram from Kobe, Japan: 350 JEWS APPEAL RESCUE ANSWER IMMEDIATELY WHICH DAY TO FAST YOMMKIPUR. Rabbi Yitzchak ha-Levi Herzog was Ashkenazi chief rabbi of Palestine at the time, having succeeded Rav Kook in 1936. For the last few years, Herzog had worked tirelessly to secure visas, certificates, and funds to help free Jews from all over Europe.
Benjamin Franklin's Hassidic Drasha
Benjamin Franklin was nothing if not industrious. A firm believer in self- improvement, at the age of 20, he drew up a list of 13 “necessary or desirable” virtues which he assiduously resolved to develop in himself. Working methodically, with neatly laid out charts to mark his progress, he set out to perfect his character. Only, his “bold and arduous project”, as he referred to it, quickly bumped up against real life.
He Shall Not Press His Fellow
In 2003, I founded a company that provided cloud services for telephony infrastructure. We had excellent technology, a crack team of coders, and eventually clients that included some of the world’s top carriers. Five years later, we had signed with an investor and were in negotiations for acquisition by a major European telephone company. We just needed a few more payroll cycles to cross the finish line, so I turned to a colleague for a bridge loan.
The Day Kosher Slaughter Was Saved
The recent ruling by the European Union Court of Justice allowing member countries to ban ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat is just one in a long line of such measures dating back at least as far as 1893, when Switzerland voted to outlaw the practice. That prohibition continues to be in effect, while the ban on kosher slaughter in Nazi Germany was rescinded after World War II.
The Day Kosher Slaughter Was Saved
The recent ruling by the European Union Court of Justice allowing member countries to ban ritual slaughter of animals for kosher and halal meat is just one in a long line of such measures dating back at least as far as 1893, when Switzerland voted to outlaw the practice. That prohibition continues to be in effect, while the ban on kosher slaughter in Nazi Germany was rescinded after World War II.
My Father and Birnbaum's Heavenly City
In the autumn of 1936, a year and a half before Hitler’s troops moved into Austria, a remarkable monograph of fifty pages was published in Vienna. The work was remarkable both for its author and for its subject. Count Arthur Polzer-Hoditz was a prominent and influential member of the old Austrian Catholic aristocracy.
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