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Steven C. WernickThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
Last Thursday night, Beth Tzedec hosted a panel that gave urgent shape to questions this Shabbat’s Torah portion has been asking all along. Bruce...
Not all distance is the same. There is the distance of genuine conflict — of peoples whose interests are irreconcilable, whose histories are defined...
Every year, in the days before Yom HaShoah, members of Beth Tzedec’s Men’s Club deliver yellow yahrzeit candles to the doors of Jewish homes...
A Reflection for Shabbat Hagadol: There is a moment at every Passover seder that no one fully rehearses. The meal is winding down. The children are...
The rabbis of the Mishnah preserved a teaching that has always guided me: “Mitchalmidai yoter mikkulam” — from my students I have learned more...
I sent a note to friends in Israel this week. I shared something I’d written about Purim — about living with uncertainty, the emotional whiplash...
The struggle over the Kotel has never really been about stones. It has always been about us — about who belongs, whose Judaism counts, and whether...