Viva Hammer
By Viva Hammer
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Fast Forward Martin Ginsburg, Who Found A Good Job, Along With His Wife
“No one would give my wife a job,” Marty Ginsburg announced, with fresh outrage, at our first meeting. That wife was Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who had graduated law school 50 years earlier without a job, and had become a U.S. Supreme Court judge 15 years before the day her husband and I met. And as…
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News Blessed With Children?
The story is told of an Orthodox man who stepped onto a bus in Jerusalem, eight children in tow. The bus driver, frustrated by all the chaos, barked out at him, “Why didn’t you just leave half your kids at home?” The man paused and then answered, “I did.” It may seem that the Orthodox…
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Opinion The Land of the Free, for Better and for Worse
Ten years ago, as a recent Australian immigrant, I was initiated into the American rite of Thanksgiving. How outraged I was! Here we were, comfortable Modern Orthodox-ish Jews, sitting down to a turkey repast in a kind of latter-day American Christmas. My hosts were defensive, and confused at my reaction. This wasn’t a Christian holiday,…
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