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Judaism's Message to Humanity

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Overpopulation

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The Extraordinary Story of the Etrog

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Yom Kippur in the Ancient Temple

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The Kol Nidrei Controversy

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Is G-d also a King?

7

Piyyut - How Jews Invented Poetry

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Freeing Hostages

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Get - The Jewish Divorce Ceremony

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Are we reaching the end-of-times?

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Is it Kosher to eat fish and meat together?

12

When Chopping Wood is a Mitzvah

13

Josephus: Historian, Traitor or Propagandist?

14

Good vs. Evil: Who Wins?

15

The Great American Jewish Experiment

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Rabbi Yosef Yitzchak Scheerson, Sacrificing for Judaism

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Balaam's Talking Donkey

18

The Split in Hungarian Jewry

19

The Danger of Words

20

Playing Music During Prayer

21

What does "Amen" mean?

22

Staying Awake on Shavuot Night

23

Pirkei Avot - The Jewish Ethical Code

24

Zohar: Judaism's secret book

25

Does the Torah mean everything it says?

26

Orla - Forbidden Fruit

27

When Fulfilling One Commandment Violates Another

28

The prohibition of Kitnoyot on Passover

29

Don't Slow Down - Keep Growing

30

Salt in Judaism

31

Finding the 10 Lost Tribes

32

The Challenge of Assimilation

33

Greeting the Shabbat

34

The Temple at Shilo

35

What does the Torah say about dogs?

36

Secrets of the 72-Word Name of G-d

37

When Children Convert to Judaism

38

Philosemitism

39

When the Angel Attacked Moses

40

The Cairo Geniza

41

The Mitzvah of Reciting Hallel

42

Bet Shamai and Bet Hillel

43

Why do Jews say Baruch Hashem?

44

When Jacob Wrestled with an Angel

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Jews in the Roman Empire

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How did Jacob trick his father?

47

The 3-Year-Old Haircutting

48

The Mitzvah of Visiting the Sick

49

Abraham's Nephew Lot

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Wine in Judaism

51

Why do Jews Dance in Circles?

52

The Water Drawing Celebration

53

The Power of Return

54

The Special Rosh Hashanah Foods

55

Should I care what other people do?

56

The Yeshiva that Changed the World

57

The Ben Ish Chai

58

What Does Judaism Say About the Environment

59

What Makes Birds Kosher?

60

Standing up to the Soviets - Reb Levik Schneerson

61

The Burning of the Talmud

62

Why are there so many different versions of the prayers?

63

Rising From the Ashes: The Struggle to Build the Second Temple

64

The Cantonists - The Czar's Jewish Soldiers

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The Jewish Underground in the Soviet Union

66

Visiting the Ohel

67

The Prophet Samuel

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The Non-Jew in the Kosher Kitchen

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The Role of Jewish Custom

70

Decoding the Torah

71

The Merkava - G-d's Chariot

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Rav Saadia Gaon

73

Who Were the Pharisees and Sadducees?

74

Crossbreeding & Mixing Animals

75

The Jews of Holland

76

Rabbi Akiva

77

The Sefirot & 49 Steps to Personal Development

78

The Mystical Meaning of the Seder Plate

79

Is Veganism a Jewish Value?

80

The Kollel - The School for Advanced Jewish studies

81

Separating Men and Women in the Synagogue

82

The Triple Purim

83

How to Study Kabbalah

84

Building the First Temple

85

Do Jews Believe in Alternative Medicine?

86

What are the 613 Commandments?

87

The 10 Mitzvah Campaigns

88

Are Locust Kosher

89

The Jews of Tunisia

90

Why does G-d have so many names?

91

Pilegesh Begivah - The Jewish Civil War

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Why do we play Dreidel on Chanukah?

93

Right-Handed & Left-Handed People in Judaism

94

The Ketubah

95

Polygamy in Judaism

96

How did Jacob marry 2 sisters?

97

Jacob's Ladder

98

The Book of Tehillim (Psalms)

99

It's a Mitzvah to be Happy!

100

Jewish Hospitality