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If you’re ashamed to tell people about the friendship, that’s an important sign that shows you don’t feel proud of it
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Close Call: Chapter 15
The more time passed, the more clarity I gained about what the problem had been with this friendship in the first place. And in one word, the answer was, “extreme”
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A New Commentary for a Changed World
Torah leaders confronting the Enlightenment were forced to develop innovative and original approaches to preserving and transmitting the mesorah. Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch’s groundbreaking commentary on Chumash stands out.
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F is for Friendship
F is for Friendship
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The Mouths of Babes 
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The Death of a Jew      
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Jolly Solly
Grand Finale
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“Burst pipe!” he called to his fellow workmen inside.  “Somebody turn off the water mains!”
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