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Shlomo Brody
When Shalva chose Shabbat over Eurovision
Israel has failed its religious Jews by not doing more to ensure their ability to participate in cultural and sports events
Sally Mayer
Always there
It feels counterintuitive, but the twice-daily sacrifices on the Temple altar are a good starting point to connect to God (Terumah)
Michelle Orrelle
The day I gave the Israeli Navy a piece of my mind
How does one prepare to give her child to those who cannot guarantee his safe return?
Sally Abrams
What if the actual Exodus were a movie?
It’s not. But the ancient texts and rituals offer us so much more
Jonathan Sacks
A portable home (Terumah 5779)
We tend to forget how profound the concept of a synagogue was; it became the ultimate expression of monotheism
Yehudis Fletcher
The community's response can hurt more than the abuse
It’s high time we protest the faith-based institutions that use faith as a fig leaf, and protect perpetrators instead of survivors
Yomin Postelnik
Fairness for the Netanyahus
It’s shameful to go after Sara Netanyahu for having a chef make food that she delivered to her ailing father in the hospital
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Alan Silverstein
Feb 8, 2019, 11:01 PM
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The Patriots, Robert Kraft, Julian Edelman – Jewish Lessons
Certain Jewish Values can be derived from Super Bowl 52: Patriots Owner Robert Kraft, Super Bowl MVP Julian Edelman, and in the Patriots overall rise to success. Robert Kraft Robert Kraft was honored by Yeshiva University in 2016, when he referenced...
Fred Maroun
Feb 8, 2019, 11:01 PM
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The fictional Abbas is an excuse to look the other way
Everybody knows that Palestinian Authority (PA) Chairman Mahmud Abbas has no legitimacy left in the 15th year of his 4-year term in office. Everybody knows that Abbas runs a corrupt administration that controls opposition through violence. The left-leaning New York...
Steven R. Rothman
Feb 8, 2019, 11:00 PM
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On Israel: Do The Actions of a Few Define The Many?
If I read one more article about the two new Democratic House members, out of the 235 Democrats there, who are suspect or worse on Israel, I think I’ll plotz. These pieces, usually written by Republicans, tend to suggest that...
John L. Rosove
Feb 8, 2019, 5:22 PM
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Shtisel – A Netflix series worth watching
Netflix’s Shtisel (created by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky) is a two-season series telling the story of an extended Haredi family living in present-day ultra-Orthodox Geula, a neighborhood in the center of Jerusalem. In Hebrew and Yiddish with English...
William Hamilton
Feb 8, 2019, 5:22 PM
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The heart of the matter
The Gettysburg Address seeks nothing less than the rebirth of our Union. Its words are meticulously chosen. The word ‘nation’ for example, appears five times. In the first paragraph which addresses the past, ‘our fathers brought forth a new...
Greg Tepper
Feb 8, 2019, 5:21 PM
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Kfar Shaul: Imprisoned and Drugged as God Warned
“You have no rights in an Israeli mental hospital,” I told my friend, a lawyer with Bituach Leumi. She and I ran into each other and she told me she’d wanted to interview me for a report she was...
Vladimir Minkov
Feb 8, 2019, 5:07 PM
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Who is hating whom in America and why
“We the People” vs “We the Elite”
Shlomo Brody
Feb 8, 2019, 4:09 PM
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When Shalva chose Shabbat over Eurovision
Israel has failed its religious Jews by not doing more to ensure their ability to participate in cultural and sports events
Yehudis Goldsobel
Feb 8, 2019, 3:41 PM
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#ItsNotOK: Responding to disclosures of sexual abuse
We had a call from a classroom assistant working in a Jewish school. The individual was concerned that they were untrained vis a vis what would be best practice response to a six-year-old student’s disclosure in a class setting....
Diana Lipton
Feb 8, 2019, 3:17 PM
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From Terumah to Nobel Prizes and Start-Up Nation
Jews and anti-Semites alike try – in their different ways – to explain the disproportionate Jewish contribution to science and medicine, the arts and popular culture, academia, entrepreneurship, invention, philanthropy and so forth. Similar quests focus on the phenomenal...
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