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Avrohom Gordimer

Jul 2, 2018, 11:15 AM

Ethiopians and Wine: Not so Fast, Rabbi Cardozo

Rabbi Nathan Lopes Cardozo's Scandalous halachic decisions: Ethiopians and wine pushes many hot buttons. Exuding an overdose of self-confidence and much dismissiveness, this article exhibits an extremely erroneous understanding of Halacha. Rabbi Cardozo argues that the prohibition on stam yaynam -- non-Jewish wine --...

Nathan Lopes Cardozo

Jun 27, 2018, 3:43 PM

The scandal of the Ethiopians and the wine

Employees of the Barkan Winery who were transferred from their jobs over questions of their Jewishness. (screen capture: Kan)

The Orthodox Judaism I fell in love with at the age of 16 has become distorted beyond recognition

Bracha Goldstein

Jun 26, 2018, 10:09 PM

Stringency Wars

“Let them be stringent,” they said. “Let them have their chumras..it doesn’t matter to us.” I heard the way this new world of Modern Orthodoxy viewed my old world. It was so foreign to me. It felt like we were...

Joshua Gerstein

Jun 26, 2018, 4:06 PM

Ethiopian Jewry, No Longer a Lost Tribe

I read with outrage and dismay the recent report of racism --masquerading as Halacha -against Ethiopian Jews at the Barkan Winery. According to the report first published by the Public broadcaster Kan (Link to the Hebrew Video) and now...

Nicholas Jagdeo

Jun 23, 2018, 12:07 AM

A twenty-first century Abraham and a Trini.

UK-born T&T novelist Nicholas S Jagdeo’s The First Jew – The Resurrection of Abraham does not, in its storyline at least, travel down entirely familiar Caribbean literary terrain, but there is more than a hint of Trini engagement of...

Irina Tsukerman

Jun 7, 2018, 11:21 PM

Intrafaith Dialogue for Jews: Healing the Divisions Created by History and Politics

I spent three days at the Yemenite Conference organized in conjunction with the American Sephardi Federation. The Conference was focused on Jewish Muslim relations in Yemen, but of course touched on many other issues - the Yemenite experience of...

Dmitri Shufutinsky

Jun 6, 2018, 8:20 PM

Game of Thrones: An Allegory for the Middle East?

Much has been made of the hit HBO television show, “Game of Thrones,” being based off of medieval European history. Indeed, some suggest that the Lannisters and Starks are based off of the Lancaster and York Houses from the...

May 23, 2018, 12:24 AM

Israel’s Morality of Survival

Israel's very existence is, historically-speaking, an improbability. To say that Israel exists still feels, seventy years after its declaration of independence, like the modern resurfacing of some long-submerged ancient mythical realm, Atlantis say. It is the rebirth of a...

Stefan Shaul Lindmark

May 18, 2018, 1:19 AM

We protest – by saying yes

We humans are the only creatures in the universe who have a free will, a will that enables us to make choices. We are able to protest against injustice that affects us. We can protest by saying no - no to...

Apr 27, 2018, 9:11 AM

BDS Is Anti-Semitic: A Response to the 2005 “Palestinian Civil Society Call for BDS”

The BDS movement was started in 2005 by Omar Barghouti, ironically, while he was a student attending Tel Aviv University. Clearly the apartheid that is claimed by Barghouti did not exist for him since he attended the university amongst...

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