The Torah helps us view life with an open mind
RABBI EPHRAIM EPSTEIN Congregation Sons of
      Parshat Shelach Num. 13:1-15:41 Parshat Shelach contains one of the most depressing episodes in world history- the slander of the 10 spies against our homeland Israel. This resulted in the divine decree that the masses would not merit to enter into the land of Israel after forty years- rather their children would.
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Reform Jews launch new siddur
By AMIRAM BARKAT JTA
      LONDON- Leaders of the Reform movement in Britain are looking to a new prayer book to help bolster the movement as the main alternative to an increasingly Orthodox British Jewry. The prayer book, published last month, is being billed as a "grass-roots siddur" because it offers a choice of several services.
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