One of the unique features of Purim, are the mitzvos concerning giving to one’s fellow Jew. We are obligated to give mishloach manos and matanas la’evyonim. There is no other festival in which there is a similar obligation of chessed (kindness). What is the connection between these mitzvos and
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I delete every email that has even a hint of being a scam, but somehow one got past me and I opened it. It was sent by someone who identified himself
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My grandfather and many of the Jews of his generation believed that keeping silent about overt anti-Semitism was the best way to handle virulent
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