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Karl Grossman

It's Jew vs. Jew in NY local politics

With Trump in the White House, decency is not inevitable, unless each one of us is willing to fight for it

Central Synagogue chazan Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff at last week’s Yom Hazikaron service. Photo: Nadine Saacks

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Central Synagogue chazan Rabbi Yehuda Niasoff at last week’s Yom Hazikaron service. Photo: Nadine Saacks

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Illustrative: Russian-speaking Jewish Americans at Limmud FSU in Princeton, NJ (Courtesy Ross Den)

Naya Lekht

How do you inherit your heritage? Ritual!

Jokes and borscht from my parents’ Russia pale in comparison to the customs and practices of Judaism

Children and residents of Kibbutz Nir Am release balloons carrying candy towards the Gaza Strip on June 15, 2018. (Screen capture: Hadashot TV News)

Avi Rockoff

I can see their faces

For American Jews to grasp what’s at stake for Israelis, they have to be able to picture those at risk of harm

Illustrative: Turkish mosaic lamps in an Istanbul bazaar. (iStock)

Roger M. Kaye

'I don't have time to talk to you'

Have Turkey’s warm welcomes been warped by years of Erdogan’s calculated mix of hate and financial success?

Illustrative: Soldiers of the IDF's ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion sit in a field at the Peles Military Base, in the Northern Jordan Valley. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)

I was a draft-dodger

Where the South African army was an instrument of racism, the ultra-Orthodox have nothing to complain about

Illustrative: Michal Baratz Koren's portrait of the five daughters of Zelophehad, who first raised before Moses the case of a woman’s right and obligation to inherit property in the absence of a male (Courtesy, Michal Baratz Koren)

The lost masterpiece

If women like Zelophehad’s daughters had gone out to spy the land, they’d never have spoken negatively of it (Pinchas)

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Jessica Levine Kupferberg

On the 4th, from afar

You feel comfortable to me, America, because I stayed with you so long I can’t be me without you

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The Tucker Carlson effect

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These government measures are not de facto annexation

Both the jubilation and the outrage over Israel’s recent changes in Judea and Samaria misconstrue what the recent administrative steps actually are — and are not

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