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Out from the Cold By Riki Goldstein | April 7, 2021 Rav Shammai Zahn nurtured a generation of Sephardi gedolim whose influence was felt all over Europe and beyond. A reunion of memories after six decades “I owe my life to him.” Talmidim remember Rav Shammai Zahn ztz”l Mr. Shmuel Bitan, originally of Melilla Mr David Fhima, originally of Marrakesh Rabbi Avraham Melul, originally of Tangiers   They were a group of several dozen Moroccan teenagers on...

The current pandemic is likely the result of science gone mad     Since the onset of the Plague, Tablet magazine has been running a series of articles by Norman Doidge, a Canadian brain researcher and psychoanalyst. That series constitutes an extended meditation on the contemporary worship of Science and the failure to properly understand its limits. Doidge writes with vast erudition, intelligence, and that rarest of all qualities — wisdom. In “Mad Science, Sane Science,” Doidge contra...

Without realizing it, you’ve probably gotten a taste of what giving does for you   Mrs. Chani Juravel A number of years ago, a study was done on elderly people living alone. All of them were struggling with depression. Half of them were given medication and therapy, and the other half were given a pet (either a dog or cat). After a number of months, they found that the people with pets were doing a lot better than the others who were going to therapy and taking medication. The reason, the st...