Chanukah of 1775

A difficult winter. Terrible cold. We are sitting in Valley Forge and waiting. Why? I don’t know. Perhaps for better days than these. I am

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Baruch Cohen, Esq., attended yeshiva from preschool to high school and spent six years studying in post high school yeshiva, before entering law school on Los Angeles.

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The Power of Words

The whole of Jerusalem was in an uproar! A well-known man, a member of the Belzer Chasidic sect, and his wife had just given birth to

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Revelation at West Point

In 1974, Rabbi Asher Wade, a US Army chaplain, befriended a Jewish American officer named Stuart. Stuart did not strike him as being a religious

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Another Chance

Until a few years ago, I didn’t take anything very seriously. I had graduated from jewish high school and didn’t want to go to college right

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The Power of Expression

“God blew into his nostrils a breath of life, and the person became a living spirit.” (Genesis 2:7)  This is the point of the arrival of

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PESACH 1941

Occasionally, one memory escapes from the vault that holds the terror of those years. One Passover, my three-year old grandchild looked up at me from

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