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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...

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...

Jun 6, 2018, 7:55 PM

Soul Doctor — A Broadway Musical starting this week in Jerusalem

The show the Soul Doctor is starting this Thursday 7th June in Jerusalem. It is based on the life of the colorful, dancing Rabbi, Shlomo Carlebach. Is it a Broadway musical. In fact, it is the first real Broadway...

Jun 5, 2018, 8:00 PM

Don’t America’s liberal rabbis have better things to do than snipe at Israel?

Why smearing Democrats as “Anti-Israel” wont sway voters The above headline appears in the February 4th issue of Forward, although I will not be reading the pearls of wisdom written by its author Aaron Davis a former Obama flunky now re-tooled...

Jun 5, 2018, 3:28 PM

Panken’s Presence: Remembering A Legacy Of Solidarity

“And Isaac entreated in the presence of his wife…” (Genesis 25:21) When someone is in distress, platitudes like “I completely understand what you are going through” have a perverse way of betraying the empathy they are intended to convey....

Dana Janine Diamond

May 17, 2018, 10:43 PM

A Summer Camp Memoir

This is one that is hard to begin. About a week ago, Hannah Dreyfus reported in The Jewish Week (also published in Times of Israel) on suspicions of corruption surrounding Reform Jewish summer camp programs on child sex abuse....

Charles Bronfman

May 4, 2018, 6:49 PM

Rebalancing the Jewish world

Illustrative: Newly ordained rabbis from Hebrew Union College's class of 2013 in Cincinnati celebrate with their ordination certificates outside the historic Plum Street Temple. (Janine Spang/JTA)

To Reform HUC graduates: We must act to prevent Israel and the Diaspora from breaking apart

Apr 8, 2018, 11:36 PM

Umu oji: Community which has celebrated biblical Pesach for thousands of years

An Igbo community called Umu oji just finished celebration of ‘Uzo Iyi’(way/road through sea/water). It was at this same clan that I saw my first Sukkot (‘ima ntu’). The name of the just concluded festival Uzo Iyi, tells us the...

Dana Janine Diamond

Apr 6, 2018, 9:18 AM

Well, either Evangelical Christians believe, as this research demonstrates, that Trump was anointed by God, which is more cult voodoo than actual Christianity...or, they easily identify with sexual predators. 78% of Evangelicals STILL support Trump, only down 2% from the...

Assaf Luxembourg

Mar 25, 2018, 7:20 PM

Moses as an Entrepreneur

Throughout my professional journey in the past decade, moving from non-profits to Government, to private sector, from working with start-ups and entrepreneurs to large corporations, then back to "start-up land", and above all - building my own business -...

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