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Mrs. Sarah Karmely is a Mashhadi Jew who was born in India, grew up in England, married in Italy, and now lives in America.  An author, teacher, marriage counselor, and international lecturer, she started becoming frum after her husband suddenly became totally paralyzed and then just as suddenly – and inexplicably – started talking and walking only after hours after receiving a beracha from the Lubavitcher Rebbe. 

Yeshiva University has a long history of tolerating extreme left-wing views and activities on campus (while showing little tolerance for extreme right-wing views).  To cite just two examples: It employed a transgender professor for 15 years and continues to employ a Bible(!) professor who advocates ignoring the Torah's views on homosexuality.  Can YU therefore continue to call itself a Torah institution?  Jonathan Gross, formerly a rabbi in Omaha, Nebraska (who sold chametz to Warren Buffett), and today a civil rights attorney, joins the program to discuss this question.

Books by Rabbi Jonathan Gross:
AI Vey: Jewish Thoughts on Thinking Machines
Values Investing: An Omaha Rabbi Learns Torah From Warren Buffett

One of the books YU banned from its Seforim Sale:
Kahane on the Parsha: Over 100 Divrei Torah on War, Faith, and the Future of the Jewish State

The subject of Elliot Resnick's canceled lecture:
America First: The Story of Sol Bloom, the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust

When you speak to young children, end your sentences with a period, not a question mark.  So advises Mrs. Rebecca Masinter, a mother of six and the author of a weekly parenting column based on the parsha.  (She's also a great-great niece of Reb Elyah Lopian.)  Among her other pieces of advice: Project confidence in front of your children, don't be afraid to be different, trust your intuition, hold off on the cell phone, and don't rush to bring you kid to an "expert."  You're the expert when it comes to your child, she argues.

Mrs. Masinter's website: www.mothersguidance.com
Book mentioned in the interview: Bad Therapy: Why the Kids Aren't Growing Up

Is Christianity an enemy of Judaism or its "daughter religion"?   Rabbi Dr. Moshe Miller, a professor at Touro College, discusses his new book on the views of Rav Yaakov Emden, Rav Yaakov Ettlinger, Rav Esriel Hildesheimer, and Rav Samson Raphael Hirsch on non-Jews and Christianity.

Rabbi Miller's book: Samson Raphael Hirsch's Universalism and the German-Jewish Quest for Emancipation

Is Candace Owens an anti-Semite?  Should we be joining the name-calling brigade?  Do we want to destroy a force for good over one issue?  Does calling people anti-Semitic accomplish anything, even when we're right?

book mentioned in the episode: America First: The Story of Sol Bloom, the Most Powerful Jew in Congress During the Holocaust

Avi Ciment – a proud Modern Orthodox Jew, inspirational speaker, and son of the first Shomer Shabbos mayor in America – diagnoses some of the problems in his own community.  Among the issues he addresses: texting on Shabbos, homosexuality, talking in shul, and the divine authorship of the Torah.

Avi Ciment's book: Real Questions, Real Answers