There is an old Broadway song that urges us to “Look to the Rainbow” — for love, luck and a happy life. Another one tells us that beyond the rainbow is a place where dreams come …
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By Joni Schockett
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7/18/19
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The mourning for Miriam is wholly inadequate, and it opened the door for the unfortunate events of Mei Merivah, which concluded with a need for different leadership to bring the …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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7/18/19
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Not long ago, I heard a powerful vignette from Rabbi Marvin Hier, the former director of the Simon Wiesenthal center. When Simon Wiesenthal, the famous Holocaust survivor and Nazi hunter, celebrated …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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7/18/19
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American Jews have a long and understandable tradition of advocacy for immigrants. That’s due in part to the fact that most Jews were the children and grandchildren of immigrants as the …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/18/19
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We take it for granted that the way to address the evil of anti-Semitism is to fight it. It’s a natural part of our vocabulary. We fight, we confront, we condemn, we call out. We refuse to …
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By David Suissa
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7/18/19
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Israeli society has been gripped over the past week by the killing of Solomon Tekah, an unarmed 19-year-old Ethiopian Israeli. On June 30, an off-duty Israeli police officer shot and killed Tekah …
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By Mijal Bitton
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7/18/19
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Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.” — Edmund Burke, 18th-century political philosopher.
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egarding the Shoah, Burke’s famous line was cut down to …
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By Jeff Dunetz
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7/18/19
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In the midst of countrywide fury over two deadly serious issues — the killing of an Ethiopian Israeli teenager by a police officer in Haifa, and the horrifying abuse …
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By Ruthie Blum
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7/18/19
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The mitzvah of the parah adumah (Red Heifer) is the focal point of the beginning of our parasha:
“This is the statute of the Torah that the L-rd commanded, saying: Speak to the children of …
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By Rabbi David Etengoff
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7/18/19
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The following is adapted from my remarks on Monday at the U.S. Department of Justice Summit on Combating Anti-Semitism.
It is a matter of no small irony that college campuses are among the places …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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7/18/19
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