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The problem with the UN vis-à-vis Israel

yesterday 2

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

The Transformational Tale of the Telephone

yesterday 2

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Michael Feldstein

Mahatma Gandhi as a Secular Prophet

yesterday 2

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Ed Gaskin

Israel’s Resilience: The Spirit of David Lives On

yesterday 2

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Sabine Sterk

Two on Art

yesterday 2

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Rick Meghiddo

A Passover lesson from some uninvited flowers

yesterday 2

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Steve Lipman

Parshah through a Mediator’s Lens: Vayikra

yesterday 2

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Ari Sliffman

It’s Time for a Centrist Rebrand

yesterday 2

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Ben Greenberg

Betar Vs. The Mainstream: Between Diaspora Mentality and Jewish Strength

yesterday 2

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Saadia Mascarini

Passover in the Shadow of October 7: Saving a Seat for the Wicked Child

yesterday 2

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Sandra Lilienthal

Maybe this year in Jerusalem

It is almost Passover again. The matzah boxes have returned to the supermarket shelves Kids cut out frogs and pyramids in kindergarten, not yet...

previous day 20

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Sarah Tuttle-Singer

The Crime of Ignorance (Vayikra)

The Crime of Ignorance (Vayikra)

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -Martin Luther King, Jr. After the terror attacks of...

previous day 9

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Ben-Tzion Spitz

Harvesting Hope: Charting A Path To Recovery For Israeli Wineries

Israeli winemakers, farmers, and producers are confident that conditions will begin to show signs of recovery in the coming months following years...

previous day 9

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Jacob Wolinsky

How inconvenient protests in Gaza can be

Amsterdam: the location of many pro-Palestinian protests. Since October 7th, the capital of the Netherlands has seen many pro-Palestinian or anti-...

previous day 9

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Jonathan Shavit

Gaza protests and the vanishing orchestra

In recent weeks, demonstrations have erupted in Gaza. Scenes of people marching through rubble in protest took many by surprise. They started in...

previous day 9

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Joseph Nichol

The Same Taste

The meal hasn’t even begun. The table is set, the glass still empty, and the maror sits in its place, clinging to its symbolic purpose. But the...

previous day 8

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Gil Mildar

Irish fascist boycott of Israeli medical industry

  Ireland introduced compulsory generic medicines substitution in 2013, leading to significant changes in medicine usage here. Much American...

previous day 8

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Louis Hemmings

A most spiritual cleanse

As I write this, my living room is still cluttered with Purim masks, clown wigs, baskets of candy, and baked treats. There’s no sign that the...

previous day 8

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Andrea Simantov

Beyond the Cloud of Concealment: Bridging the Mortal and the Divine

Beyond the Cloud of Concealment: Bridging the Mortal and the Divine

At the end of the book of Exodus, which we read last week, the tabernacle was completed, but Moses was not able to enter it because “the cloud...

previous day 7

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Pinny Arnon

Connection and Community on a Hadassah Evolve Leadership Fellows Trip to Israel

Connection and Community on a Hadassah Evolve Leadership Fellows Trip to Israel

At a time when many people are still overly fearful about going to Israel, 10 Hadassah Evolve Leadership Fellows, including three from my own...

previous day 7

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Danielle Feldman

Does G-d Need Your Coke Zero?

“Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘When a man from brings an offering to G-d, you must bring your offering from animals — from cattle or...

wednesday 7

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Steve Rodan

The Lessons of Gaza

The first time I went to Gaza, I stood with a resident of Jabaliya camp as he explained that not one resident of Jabaliya town had ever married a...

wednesday 8

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Kerry Abbott

Islamic-Christian Relations & Antisemitism

  Islamic-Christian relations have spanned over 1,400 years, marked by periods of cooperation, coexistence, and conflict. While much attention has...

wednesday 30

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Ed Gaskin

Children in Wars Outside Gaza apparently Don’t Matter

We thought it would be useful to begin this column which deals with the civilian death toll in Gaza with a statement from the United Nations...

wednesday 30

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Berl Falbaum

Israel on the Path to Total Victory

Israel stands on the precipice of a decisive victory over its adversaries. As the military campaign in Gaza resumes, Hamas finds itself with almost...

wednesday 10

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Daniel Rosen

Ashkefardim: No Ruz, Nissan, Together, Still

Our synagogue hosted its first-ever No Ruz celebration last week. An extraordinary evening of live piano performances and dancing by youth and...

wednesday 10

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Rebecca Sassouni

What Israel can learn from the many lives of Dr. Koop

This blogpost aims to critique Israeli politics; the fact that it now reviews a very recently published book on a seemingly unrelated topic is only...

wednesday 10

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Kenneth Ryesky

Post traumatic

There I was. A tiny town, a gathering point for those who were summoned. We came, to join our brothers-in-arms, with Syrian artillery raining death...

wednesday 3

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Yuval Krausz

In Retrospect: Some Past April Events for Israel, Jews and the US in the World

In Retrospect: Some Past April Events for Israel, Jews and the US in the World

  A retrospective selection – but not a comprehensive compendium – of some  significant past April events with respect to Israel, Jews, the Middle...

wednesday 10

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Michael J. Lewis

Tel Aviv and Berlin: A New City Partnership?

Tel Aviv and Berlin: A New City Partnership?

On March 28, 2025, Berlin’s state parliament unanimously approved a motion to establish a twin town relationship with Tel Aviv. As the capital of...

wednesday 6

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John Meister

How I Make My Chocolate Seder Memorable: 5 Tips That Work

How I Make My Chocolate Seder Memorable: 5 Tips That Work

Every year, around Passover, I find myself thinking about how we bring people together — not just physically around a table, but emotionally,...

wednesday 3

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Ben Vorspan

Be Eliyahu!

Be Eliyahu!

In Parshat Vayikra, we read about the Korbanot (sacrifices) that need to be brought after a person transgresses. Not only the lay people are...

wednesday 7

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Sharona Margolin Halickman

Pay no attention to the war and dysfunction

With the country burning, Nero Netanyahu and wife are taking a taxpayer-funded jaunt on a long, cozy weekend far from the threat of arrest   All...

wednesday 8

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Lawrence Rifkin

An Anti-Zionist Seder?

Last year on Passover, the anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace staged what they called an anti-Zionist Seder at the University of Southern...

wednesday 8

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Moshe Grussgott

Tashbih: Biblical Anthropomorphism and the Qur’an

The Qur’an teaches: Say, [O believers], “We believed in Allah and what has been revealed to us [the Qur’an] and what has been revealed to...

wednesday 7

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Allen S. Maller

Vigil.

Midnight doesn’t arrive all at once. It slips in slowly, as if it knows it doesn’t belong. It dims the voices one by one. Silences the world...

wednesday 7

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Gil Mildar

An Open Letter to the Simple Son

An open letter to the simple son Dear Tom, Your mother and I are so happy to hear that you’ll be joining us again for seder this year. I know that...

wednesday 6

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Mordechai Soskil

Extensions, Baby, Expansions

Extensions, Baby, Expansions

Automation in farming. AI writing school curricula. Entire towns powered by off-grid solar and governed by digital cooperatives. These are no...

wednesday 7

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Sharon Gal Or

Life in a Post-October 7 Universe

Life in a Post-October 7 Universe

“After October 7.” How many sentences have we all started with those words? It’s still hard to explain to our non-Jewish friends how life-altering,...

wednesday 6

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Carolyn Bergen

I Had a Dream

I Had a Dream

The other night, I dreamed that I sat in a sports bar sipping on a Johnnie Walker Black. I felt the scotch burn my throat. While on the TV, I...

wednesday 40

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Mort Laitner

Into the Secret Annex: Reading Anne Frank at Last

Before touring the Anne Frank exhibition at New York’s Center for Jewish History (CJH), I decided to do background research. That is, I read the...

01.04.2025 1

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Van Wallach

Will Copyright Doom Generative AI?

Will Copyright Doom Generative AI?

New large language models (LLMs) seem to appear every day, yet the controversy surrounding the legality of training them on copyrighted material...

01.04.2025 4

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Steven J. Frank

Why Israel Needs to Bring Back Its Brilliant Minds

Why Israel Needs to Bring Back Its Brilliant Minds

With all the news coming out of Israel these days, it would’ve been easy to miss the recent prediction by Moody’s that the country’s...

01.04.2025 2

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Jessica Feldan

NIH cuts won’t solve an antisemitism problem

“My students grants on Alzheimer’s Disease were cancelled.” “I can only keep my lab open for a month or two without these funds.” These are the...

01.04.2025 5

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Sarah A. Stern

Jewish Calendar

The question is often asked as to whether the Jewish calendar is lunar or solar. The correct answer is that it is both. The individual months are...

01.04.2025 3

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Kenneth Cohen

Christian Zionists and American Jews Post-October 7″

This is the 22nd part of a series on Christianity and the history of antisemitism. While we are often reminded to “Never forget,” many of us were...

01.04.2025 1

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Ed Gaskin

Hypocrites and Breeders

The United Nations says Israel is stopping the women of Gaza from reproducing. The three-person Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian...

01.04.2025 2

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Donna Schatz

Always With Us

They were always there- at school plays, birthday parties, sitting amongst us in the audience at Yom Hashoah memorials. They were in our homes,...

01.04.2025 2

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Ilanit Zakowski

Freedom and A New Perspective- Pekudei/Shabbat Hachodesh 5785

This Shabbat is a banner Shabbat in the Jewish calendar. We read parshat Pekudei, which completes our yearly reading of the book of Exodus. It is...

01.04.2025 6

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Ben Einsidler

From Hostage to Human Trafficked — Part One

Introduction On October 7, 2023, Hamas conducted surprise attacks on several areas in Israel, slaughtering millions of innocent people.[1] Akin to...

01.04.2025 1

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Kaitlyn Lancaster