Daniel M. Jaffe
By Daniel M. Jaffe
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News Modern Times
“Technically, Alice, according to the Torah, it’s not adultery.” Alice yanks her elbow from his hand, walks down the synagogue steps, crosses the street to a park bench, sits. Bob follows, but as he sits beside her, Alice angles her body away. “Alice,” he says, touching her shoulder. She jerks free. “Carol’s Jewish,” he says,…
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News The Honor of Sacrifice
Strains of the “Ma Tovu” — “How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob; Thy dwellings, O Israel!” — filtered from the human synagogue to the nearby barn. The flock’s elder, a white ram, turned to the kids and lambs, bullocks, calves and colts sitting up front on the hay: “In this week’s parsha, Chukat, we…
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News Azazel, the Scapegoat
Jed stands with the Shabbos congregation, mutters the Amidah by heart while steeling himself for the upcoming Kaddish. He looks over at the Gutmans in the front row, their boy a bar mitzvah today. A good boy, who answered the rabbi’s questions correctly, recited the rules for laying our sins upon Azazel the goat, sending…
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