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So 51% of non-Orthodox rabbinical students identified as LGBTQ

Allen S. Maller

Lather, Rinse, Repeat

Harry Katcher

Are We Against Something… or For Something?

David Sable

The Marked Collar

Monique Dietvorst

Let’s not slip from surge to slumber

Jay Tcath

Lebanon Has Been Too Slow To Disarm Hezbollah

Sheldon Kirshner

It Ain’t Over

Carol Silver Elliott

Brown University – The Jewish Ivy?

Ellen Ginsberg Simon

Getting up to speed: The Abraham Accords – More relevant than ever

Ruth Lieberman

The Hollywood History of Art by Christopher Frayling

Hannah Gal

Selective Outrage Epidemic

Ariana Mizrahi

Triggering & Brilliant: Slam Frank

Hallel Silverman

Israeli Democracy Under Strain

Raphael Cohen-Almagor

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Sarah Kendis

If We Won the War, Why Don’t We Feel the Sweet Taste of Victory?

Joanna Landau

When the Ladder Meets the Tunnels: Parashat Vayetzei

Jay M. Stein

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Ed Gaskin

Overcoming terrifying obstacles: A parable from the Baal Shem Tov

Ariel Galian

Toldot, a Tale as Old as Time (thanks to @Disney)

Karen Reiss Medwed

Ending an Unfinished Task in Middle East Security

Fred Saberi

Kais Saïed’s Mask: Tunisia’s Shift from Democratic Hope to Judicial Farce

Amine Ayoub

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Matthew Robin

U.S. Conservatives Struggle With Antisemitism

Sheldon Kirshner

We Are Never Alone

Lazer Gurkow

Why Israel Stands Alone Again

Sabine Sterk

Four Entered Pardes: The Three Lights Of Tohu . . . And Rabbi Akiva: A Chiddush

Yael Chaya Miriam Gray

Reform/Liberal /Progressive Judaism is alive and well in the USA and the UK

Ron Kronish

The Eternal Jew’s Tale, #196, Crystal Haggadah, 7

Stephen Berer

Between Silence and Witness: A Gentile in a Jewish Room

Magnus Torén

The Day After Ukraine: A Warning for Israel

Richard Diamond

Friday afternoon at the corner grocery store in Jerusalem

Sarah Tuttle-Singer

Israel’s Goodness the World Refuses to See

Sabine Sterk

Barghouti Is a Loaded Gun Israel Cannot Ignore

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Hope is my toxic trait

Talyah Ginsberg

2 + 2 = 5 Comes to Canberra

Shannon Cummings

Saudi Arabia: A New Regional Balance

Gilles Touboul

After Gaza: Israel’s Moment to Learn or Repeat History

Victor Satya

When the university is hopeless and stupid, what is left?

Goldie Warshawsky Klugman

Double Exposure