GALIT LEV-HARIR and TRACI GOLDSTEIN
• Published February 16, 2022
On Feb. 1, Amnesty International issued a report on Israel that labels Israel as an “apartheid” state. Use of the emotionally charged term “apartheid” is intended to stigmatize Israel, isolate it in the community of nations and, ultimately, delegitimize...
This article first appeared on Alma.
In Orthodox Judaism, a child’s Hebrew name is given within the first week. The rules for our lives are predetermined, assigned based on our gender at birth. Since I was born, I knew inside that I was created differently...
(JTA) — Eight days after I was born, I had a brit. I was a Jew, and that’s what Jews do. Well, many do it anyway; Jews who are not observant may not, but that wasn’t my family. We kept Shabbat. We had the best meals and wine during Passover....
Today, February 14th is one day of the year that is directly linked to love, I decided to research the phenomenon of love to see what modern science has to say about it.
Surprisingly, scientists have only relatively recently begun to research the...
RABBI JOSEF DAVIDSON
• Published February 10, 2022
In Tetzaveh, this week’s Torah portion, we learn that the High Priest was to wear a headdress to which a gold frontlet inscribed with “Holy to the Eternal” was attached by a blue cord. One might ask: Why was this gold frontlet attached to the...
It was 2 a.m. in March of 2020, and my daughter and I watched the COVID news while scrolling through Hillel’s College Guide to find schools with a Jewish population.
One by one, we went through the list to find a school with a Jewish population....
(JTA) — Last week, Amnesty International released a 280-page report calling Israel an apartheid state and charging it with crimes against humanity, including atrocities against Palestinian citizens of Israel. Such claims have been made before,...
Everyone has pet peeves. Everyone has things that annoy them to no end. And everyone has to let those things out to free the space in their mind being taken up by negativity.
Because you and I have built this relationship of acceptance and trust,...
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The parade of Olympic athletes in their national colors, the international diplomatic corps looking...
(JTA) — On Friday my world was shaken. It hit me, as though it were a fresh wound: My father, Elie Wiesel, was really gone.
It hurt terribly when he died over five years ago, on July 2, 2016. But I also found peace and awakening as I grieved....
(JTA) — Art Spiegelman once complained that “Maus,” his classic memoir about his father’s experiences in the Holocaust, was assumed to be intended for young adults because it took the form of a comic book.
“I have since...
