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Daphne Lazar PriceThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
There are acts of vandalism that damage property, and then there are acts that reveal history has never really ended. The recent defacement of the...
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...