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Jun 29, 2018, 1:19 PM

Soldiers and semen

From, 'Balaam blessing the Israelites,' as in Numbers 24:1-5, 10-13. Illustration from the 1728 Figures de la Bible; image courtesy Bizzell Bible Collection, University of Oklahoma Libraries (Wikimedia Commons).

If Balaam is so damned despicable, why do we Jews keep quoting him?!

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 26, 2018, 6:38 PM

No more victims!

My phone rings again. … The Tahel hotline rings again… Over and over, day after day, the cases keep coming forward to Tahel. One more child is raped. One more teenager is molested. We read the stories. We hear...

Jun 19, 2018, 6:50 AM

Dear Frum People

I’m part of this fascinating Facebook group called “Frum/OTD Dialogue,” which has been growing rapidly since I joined a few months ago. While the content of the group is for members only, I was inspired by a question that...

Carol Silver Elliott

Jun 14, 2018, 5:27 AM

Combating elder abuse

Friday June 15 is World Elder Abuse Awareness Day. It’s a day when we work to get the larger community to focus on issues of elder abuse, to be not just aware of the problem but also to be...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 27, 2018, 8:07 PM

Saluting the Brave

You can count on me to be a voice of good cheer on this holiday weekend. More school children were gunned down in America than US soldiers were killed in battle last year. Black men are 13 times as likely to...

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....

Shayna Goldberg

May 16, 2018, 1:44 PM

'But you can't say "stupid" about people'

Winner of the Eurovision 2018 song contest Netta Barzilai seen as she arrives at Ben Gurion International Airport on May 14, 2018. (Flash90)

When you go looking for a relationship, don't settle for Netta's anthem of 'not your toy!'

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

May 12, 2018, 11:03 PM

Bill Cosby’s conviction and the dichotomy of Good and Evil people

The man did a lot of good and the man did a lot of evil. How can we forget all the good? How can we forget all the evil? Donald Trump is doing a lot of evil but he's also...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 9, 2018, 9:45 PM

When Darkness Comes to Light

When Trump bitched about Hillary's "Pay to Play" schemes, he wasn't outraged so much as deeply jealous. As a self-pronounced Greed-aholic, Trump has always been willing to do whatever it takes to get money - including money laundering, traitorous...

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