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Feivel StraussThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
In our family, when someone spills wine at the Shabbat table, I spill some too. I started doing it years ago, almost without thinking. A guest knocks...
What a Talmudic story teaches us about labels, identity, and the danger of categories that become too small. Years ago, while living in Israel, a...
The real danger was never many gods, but making one thing absolute Monotheism is often reduced to a math problem. One God versus many gods. Judaism,...
The Blessing of Being Seen We live in a time of relentless exposure and deepening invisibility. Never have human beings been more publicly visible to...
There is a strange kind of exhaustion that comes from living in an age where everyone is certain about everything. Every day brings another...
Moses got all the credit. The real story was happening below. There are two common phrases for what happened at Sinai, and the difference between them...
From “Next Year in Jerusalem” to “Jerusalem of Gold,” Jewish memory has often functioned less as nostalgia than as preparation for the future....
A confident Jewish future begins when students become teachers. I once heard the Bostoner Rebbe speak to a group of college students. One student,...