Shabbat 500 - A Gathering of the Righteous

No Shabbat experience is complete without a word of Torah - here is a quick insight:

We are doing this mega Shabbat dinner as a Hakhel gathering. In Deuteronomy, G-d tells Moses to command the Jewish people that once in every 7 years, men, women, and children should gather in the Holy Temple in Jerusalem, where the king would read the Torah publicly for everyone.

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Shlomo Rothstein
Is there Antisemitism on Vanderbilt's Campus

To good people who think they are doing the right thing by singling out Jews and Israel. Understand this. Jew hatred has been around for millennium, to exist “respectfully” though, Jew Hatred presents a new “face” from time to time. If you find yourself hating Jews or Israel you need to take a hard look at why and compare your hatred in these areas with your reaction to similar and even worse situations with other people and other groups. If you find that you are harsher towards Jews and Israel, then it is nothing more than old-fashioned Jew hatred, as evil, as despicable, and as dangerous as ever.

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Shlomo Rothstein