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Jul 6, 2018, 12:55 AM

The lost masterpiece

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)

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

Harvey M. Lederman

Jul 5, 2018, 9:41 PM

The Jewish angle for this triathlete

Illustrative: Competitors make their way from the finish area at the London Marathon in 2010. (Tom Hevezi/AP)

If my motivation flags, I think of Maimonides and his scorn for those who don't exercise

Jul 5, 2018, 9:15 PM

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

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

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

Jessica Levine Kupferberg

Jul 4, 2018, 8:38 PM

On the 4th, from afar

Illustrative. Holiday fireworks. (iStock)

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

Jul 4, 2018, 8:19 PM

I was a draft-dodger

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)

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

Jul 4, 2018, 7:44 PM

I can see their faces

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

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

Jul 4, 2018, 1:13 PM

One Jewish people; two Jewish worlds

Israelis hold American and Israeli flags with the new US Embassy in the background in Jerusalem, May 14, 2018. (AP Photo/Sebastian Scheiner)

It's not that Diaspora Jewry isn't Zionist, but that they would run the Jewish state in a very different way

Jul 4, 2018, 7:28 AM

Walking through the valley of the shadow of death

Illustrative. Flowers. (iStock)

My health crisis is not over, but I am living it with joy, intentionality, and an eagerness for more

Jul 1, 2018, 3:52 PM

Soccer's lesson in how to make peace

Britain's Prince William (C) prepares to shoot a soccer ball during his meeting with young Palestinian soccer players in the West Bank city of Ramallah on June 27, 2018. (AFP Photo/Abbas Momani)

Palestinian leaders rebuffed the Argentinean team's visit but accepted Prince William's: Here's why

Andy Blumenthal

Jul 1, 2018, 3:20 PM

Naked before G-d

Praying, fasting and mourning the Temple's destruction on the Ninth of Av, Tisha B'Av. (Leeor Bronis/Times of Israel)

At the Western Wall, where we bare our souls before our Maker, Marisa Papen instead displayed haughty flesh

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