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As a Driven LeafThursday, March 28, 2013 by Phil Cohen | Jewish Ideas Daily » Daily Features
Milton Steinberg's As a Driven Leaf is no literary masterpiece. But the novel, with its story of a notorious 2nd-century, C.E. heretic, has been in print for 75 years. What accounts for the book's appeal to generations of modern Jews?
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Remembering Bar Yohai—and Bar Kokhba Ari Enkin, Torah Musings. On Lag BaOmer, which begins tomorrow night, we commemorate not only the yahrzeit of Tannaic rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai but also the Bar Kokhba revolt.
Of Rabbis and Maccabees Reuben Livingstone, Jewish Chronicle. The rabbis never deny the necessity of self-defense. So, why does the Talmud’s discussion of Hanukkah downplay the military exploits of the Maccabees?