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Joseph C. Kaplan

Jul 6, 2018, 11:17 PM

Ani Ledodi V’dodi Li

Since my retirement (It’s Not an Ugly Word, Ernest, 1/5/18), the two most frequent questions I’ve been asked are (a) are you enjoying it and (b) what are you doing with yourself? While the answer to the first is...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jul 6, 2018, 8:37 PM

Guess who was not involved in the sin of the spies?

When we speak about Chet HaMiraglim, the sin of the spies, we mention that Yehoshua and Calev were the only two of the twelve spies who did not bring a false report and they were therefore not punished as...

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

Jun 29, 2018, 5:58 PM

The number on my arm

The ACLU legal aid's phone number, written on Shira Pruce's forearm with a red sharpie, June 28, 2018. (Courtesy, Shira Pruce).

I know what my children and grandchildren will say about me when they speak of these dark times

Dana Janine Diamond

Jun 28, 2018, 4:03 PM

America’s Farewell to Judeo

I conducted research on this since the election. A lot of people voted for Trump because they wanted Gorsuch, because their Christian religion values embryos equally or even over actual human life. This is not true in the Jewish...

Sharona Margolin Halickman

Jun 27, 2018, 10:31 PM

Do justice, love kindness and walk humbly with God

In the Haftara for Parshat Balak (Micha 5:6-6:8), we read the prophecy of Micha which recalls some of the ways in which God protected B’nai Yisrael during the forty years that they spent in the wilderness. One of the...

Jun 26, 2018, 12:01 AM

The day a 'hand vagina' made this bride blush

Illustrative wedding photo. (JTA)

Or how an Orthodox rebbetzin made this secular Israeli bride blush

Jun 25, 2018, 3:44 PM

A liberal stands up for segregation

Illustrative: Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Tel Aviv's mayor has no moral case against the Chabad event that would separate men and women

Carla Brewington

Jun 22, 2018, 12:01 AM

Coming out... as a Zionist was not an easy decision. Friends walked away, some faster than others, but most walked away. They would call themselves pro-Palestinian, not even knowing what that meant. For the record, I say Yes, to the innocent...

Ziona Greenwald

Jun 21, 2018, 10:53 PM

Hollywood’s Talk of Shame

Hollywood has never been a moral bastion. Its stars have never been beacons of righteousness, unless you count self-righteousness. But the entertainment world has lately sunk to new lows. Vulgarity and profanity are no longer confined to R-rated movies and...

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