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OPINION & COMMENT

The Demography and the Reality of the Jewish People

The first findings were released last week from the National Jewish Population Survey (NJPS) 2000-2001. Based on the latest techniques, generously funded and richly detailed, it is without a doubt the best picture available of American Jewry as a whole. Unfortunately, because of the perspective of those who are behind it, the community that it depicts is not the Am Hashem, the people of which it is said that they are one with Hashem and the Torah.

The Transmission of the Torah from Generation to Generation:
An Interview with HaRav Zvi Markowitz

by Rav A. Chefetz

The building on Rechov Adoniyohu Hakohen in Yerushalayim refused to reveal the events taking place inside it. We knocked gently on the door and saw a modest home with an old bookshelf, an old table, and simple chairs. We sensed that serene tranquility that has always been the reserve of the gedolim: Toras Hashem temimoh, meshivas nofesh.

The Test of Lech Lecho:
Change and Growth

by HaRav Chaim Pinchas Scheinberg, shlita

Avrohom Ovinu was tested ten times. One of the tests was "Lech Lecho," the test of leaving his home. This test followed the test of not denying his faith in HaKodosh Boruch Hu when he faced death by fire in Ur Kasdim.

Reward and Punishment
by Chaim Walder

Recent years have brought more and more remonstrations against punishment, remarks that have made their way into our camp as well. The general idea is that punishment is ineffective and not educational, and can even repress the child and make him aggressive toward others, and so on.


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