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Marc J. RosensteinThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
We keep telling ourselves and anyone who will listen that Judaism and Zionism are somehow the same thing. However, a century ago that was by no...
The Hasmoneans (Macabees), leaders of the revolt against the Seleucids in the second century BCE, were of priestly descent. The fact that they took...
If you are paying attention during the weekly Torah reading in synagogue, you will notice frequent descriptions or commandments involving putting...
The term pariah derives from a name applied in the past to the lowest caste in Hindu society, the “untouchables” now called Dalits; its...
In Loraine Hansberry’s Raisin in the Sun (1959), Walter famously declaims his understanding of how things work: “It’s all divided up. Life...
In 2000, approximately 450 academic papers and books were published dealing with antisemitism. In 2020, there were 1,200; in 2024, over 3,000. ...
Around 950 BCE King Solomon built the Temple in Jerusalem, where the nation’s communication with God was to be focused, through sacrifices offered...
A few weeks ago, I joined a solidarity meeting at a nearby Israeli Palestinian middle school, whose eighth graders, on a school hike in a national...