Arkady Mamaysky
By Arkady Mamaysky
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Community ‘Being Chosen does not mean that we are better than any other people, but we are definitely not worse.’
Being a strong believer in G-d, I realize that we humans are not given the knowledge and intellect to fully understand G-d’s ways and intentions for human destiny. With the above in mind, let us analyze Jewish chosenness by looking back at our historical (often very difficult) experience in an attempt to distinguish between things…
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Community ‘Believing in God means understanding that violence and cruelty are a violation of His will’
From time immemorial, even at a very primitive level of human development, people understood that there are extremely powerful forces controlling everything in the world around them. And so they developed primitive polytheistic religions – the beliefs in idols and spirits. On reaching a much higher level of human development, our ancestors, the ancient Hebrew/Jewish…
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Community Are We Powerless To Stop Gun Violence?
When one looks at the readily-available online list of mass shootings, which take place way too often during peaceful times in our great country, it is impossible not to be terrified and even ashamed that the our great country seems helpless to put an end to it. 59 killed and 500 injured in Los Vegas….
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