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This week's Torah portion raises the question of the meaning of death, a matter that has occupied the human mind for time immemorial. Tikvah's Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer explores the relationship between mortality and sin.

What is the story of the Jews who stayed in the former Soviet Union?

What exactly did Amalek do that would warrant obliteration? Leon Kass searches for an explanation... (via Mosaic Magazine)

"In the great tradition of the Yiddish Haskole (Enlightenment), these poems and stories...were meant to serve as part of the child's development. They weren't lesson plans but material for children to explore by themselves." (via Jewish Review of Books)