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Robert L. Wolkoff

Jul 6, 2018, 11:18 PM

Liberal Jews Cause Earthquakes. Who Knew?

It is no coincidence that Parshat Pinchas, which centers on blind zealotry, always comes during the build up to Tisha B’av, which commemorates the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem—which was destroyed, the rabbis tell us, because of sinat...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Jul 3, 2018, 3:16 AM

One Orthodox rabbi can make a huge difference

One Orthodox rabbi can make a huge difference, even if he can't change Jewish Law on his own. At least, he makes people say: what a great person he is. That is the most important Commandment a Jew can...

Jul 3, 2018, 1:45 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! the Aurora Has Something to Say

It’s hard not to feel Nature singing God’s praises, whether in the vivid blue sky overhead this afternoon… or in the brilliant aurora, when the sun showers electromagnetic particles on Earth’s polar atmosphere to produce shimmering curtains of colored...

Phyllis Bernstein

Jul 2, 2018, 10:26 PM

Uncivil Society — In My Hometown

Can we all stop to listen and try to understand? My husband and I were honored by the local Chabad at a fancy catering hall and I will share a story about my remarks. As Jews we are one people...

Jun 30, 2018, 12:51 AM

Empathy must conquer fear

No battles are as fierce as the ones fought between brothers. I speak not of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but of the rifts between right and left in Israel, and between Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Outsiders seldom...

Irina Tsukerman

Jun 29, 2018, 6:34 AM

How Mainstream Jewish Organizations Whitewash Islamists

The Middle East Forum's recent report detailing the Islamic Relief's domestic and international ties to various Muslim Brotherhood shill organizations, Hamas-linked charities, and even the Muslim Brotherhood itself generated little buzz in the Jewish world. After a slew of investigations...

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...

Jun 28, 2018, 7:01 AM

Nature Speaks — Listen! The Grass Has Something to Say

Since early childhood I’ve been spellbound by the endless varieties of life that pop out of simple clumps of grass. Now it’s a delight to pass this tiny adventure on to my toddler grand-daughter. It’s hard not to feel...

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...

Reuven Bobby Weinmann

Jun 21, 2018, 12:48 PM

Has Reform Judaism jumped the shark?

Illustrative: A group meeting for a 'P'sukei D'zimra' morning service before the main Shabbat worship service at the Reform biennial in San Diego, December 14, 2013. (URJ via JTA/File)

At some point, the priority of complete personal autonomy in matters of religion stopped working for me

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