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Rabbi's Office: February 2010 |
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In Parshat Terumah, which we will read from our Torah this month, there is an elaborate description of the Aron Kodesh - the Holy Ark where the tablets of the Ten Commandments were kept. The details of the ark include: a box frame made from acacia wood, plated with gold inside and out; four gold rings on the sides where two poles (also |
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President's Column: February 2010 |
A Part of the Health Debate – A Collection Attorney’s Perspective
I realize this is a difficult and often touchy subject. I further realize I will not make everyone happy on this one. However, my target is health care and the practice of law with a Jewish perspective. Since the other attorneys in our congregation do not practice medical malpractice, I figured why not.
A January 26, 2010 editorial in the Gazette discussed the topic of “defensive medicine” and whether it would be prudent to cap medical malpractice awards. A classic example of how defensive medicine works goes as follows: if you go to the emergency room and complain of a severe headache, the patient will receive a spinal tap and CAT |
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Rabbi's Office: January 2010 |
Typically, as we turn our calendars and begin a New Year, we also turn our Torah and begin a new book, the Book of Exodus. This book of Torah introduces us to our great prophet Moses, whose life and leadership takes us through the next four books of our most sacred text.
Moses, as we know, lived a long life. At the end of the Torah, Moses is buried at the age of 120. The first five chapters of Exodus, the chapters that make up the first portion which we read at the beginning of the New Year, |
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