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Jun 23, 2018, 11:44 PM

What You Can – And Must- Do About Genocide

If you’re a person who can hear stories about soldiers who enter a village and throw babies into a bonfire, or rape all the women, or herd families into huts and burn them alive, and then shrug your shoulders...

Mar 28, 2018, 9:00 AM

A strange invitation and our slave mentality

Illustrative: Lina, an asylum seeker from Sudan, with the finished mural on Rothschild Boulevard in Tel Aviv on February 21, 2018. (Melanie Lidman/Times of Israel)

The Passover mentality is one of bounty, which should help open Israeli hearts to asylum seekers

Sep 29, 2017, 12:22 PM

For This Sin, Israel’s Supreme Court Just Ruled Soul-Searching Forbidden

Yom Kippur is a day dedicated to self-examination and soul-searching, but Israel’s supreme court has declared that forbidden, at least in regards to one deeply troubling issue. This past Monday, the court heard yet another petition concerning the sale of...

Sep 20, 2017, 12:28 AM

55 rabbis, educators and communal leaders call on Israel to stop selling weapons to Burma

To the honorable Prime Minister and Foreign Minister, Mr. Binyamin Netanyahu And the honorable President, Mr. Reuven Rivlin, The Rohingya tribe, an ethnic minority in Burma (Myanmar) often referred to as the “most persecuted minority in the world,” have suffered systematic...

Jul 28, 2017, 8:23 AM

Is Religious Zionism really religious?

When Israel exports weapons to human rights violators, it loses the moral bedrock without which Jewish sovereignty fails

Jul 5, 2017, 9:34 AM

Six million plus one

Israel makes money off the suffering of millions by supporting South Sudan's terror, and only one person is protesting

Jun 6, 2017, 3:20 AM

Isaiah the ‘leftist’ comes to Tel Aviv

Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman sits in the cockpit of the F-35 stealth fighter jet, as IAF Chief of Staff Brig. Gen. Tal Kelman stands over him, during an unveiling ceremony in Fort Worth, Texas, on June 22, 2016. (Ariel Hermoni/Defense Ministry)

A rebuke to the city where people from 90 nations will gather to study swords and not plowshares

Apr 7, 2017, 10:28 AM

President Rivlin, Syria, and the Chametz Trap

Over the past few weeks, my house, like many Jewish homes all across the globe, has been a battlefield. An unrelenting war has been declared against chametz, all manner of bread, cookie, or otherwise leavened grain, an assault which...

Jan 13, 2017, 6:05 PM

Looking for the Helpers

When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.” Mr. Rogers The volume of scary things in the...

Jul 21, 2016, 2:37 AM

Leviticus Weighs on me…So I’ll March

When I think of today’s Pride Parade in Jerusalem, there are some verses in Leviticus that weigh heavily on my mind. Clearly, I’m not talking about the verses in chapters 18 and 20 which forbid homosexual relations, referring to them...

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About Me

Avidan Freedman is an educator and melaveh ruchani at the Hartman Boys High School in Jerusalem.