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Daphne Lazar PriceThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
When Boy George burst onto the music scene in the 1980s, he was the embodiment of counterculture: Gender-bending, flamboyant, unapologetically...
This Shabbat, the one that follows Tisha B’Av, Jews around the world will hear one of the most beloved passages in the Hebrew Bible: “Nachamu,...
The bill now before the Knesset that would elevate Torah study into Basic Law and effectively treat it as a substitute for traditional sherut leumi or...
As the 3rd of Tammuz approaches, marking the yahrzeit of Rabbi Menachem Mendel Schneerson z”l, I have been thinking not only about the Rebbe’s...
Thousands upon thousands gathered in New York on Sunday for the Israel Day Parade. For the first time in years, I was not one of them. Instead, I...
“A man who teaches his daughter Torah teaches her tiflut.” Mishna Sotah 3:4 The Hebrew word tiflut has been translated in a number of ways:...
Shavuot arrives each year with a radical proposition: that wisdom is not simply acquired, but encountered. The holiday commemorates revelation at...
For nearly four decades, the debate over the Western Wall has been framed as a battle between denominations. Reform and Conservative leaders demand...
In the announcements of eJewishPhilanthropy, the section titled “Major Gifts” usually reads like a ledger of generosity measured in dollars: a...