Billy Joel’s decision to sport a yellow star on the front and back of his jacket during a concert last week was a nod to history that the singer may not have been aware of.
The venue for the …
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By Ben Cohen
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8/30/17
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There probably has never been an easier path to consensus for the three major non-Orthodox rabbinic associations. The decision of the Central Conference of American Rabbis (Reform), the Rabbinical …
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By Jonathan Tobin
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8/30/17
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The U.S. government’s reluctance to demand the immediate creation of a Palestinian state has sent J Street into a panic.
With its candidates having been defeated …
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By Stephen M. Flatow
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8/30/17
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As I write this, I sense that sad and wistful feeling that sneaks in every year when summer’s end is just around the corner. I got it as an 8 year old, when Labor Day …
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By Joni Schockett
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8/30/17
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I recently read a vignette which touched me:
A fellow, on his way home, saw a Little League baseball game being played in a park. Sitting down on the sidelines to watch …
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By Rabbi Binny Freedman
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8/30/17
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In Devarim 22:13-21, we find two related circumstances that are both very disturbing from a contemporary vantage point.
The first concerns a man who marries a woman and then claims she was not a …
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By Rabbi Avi Billet
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8/30/17
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This week marks the sheloshim anniversary of the untimely passing last month, right after Tisha B’ Av, of the world famous Holocaust historian and theologian, Rabbi Dr. Pesach Schindler, …
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By Alan Jay Gerber
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8/29/17
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We live in a time when, as the U.S. State Department has noted, a “rising tide of anti-Semitism” is sweeping the world. In the West, it is creeping into the mainstream from the margins of …
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By Jonathan S. Tobin
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8/23/17
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Jews are asking if we’re back in the 1920s. To me, the scene outside a Charlottesville synagogue is more like Odessa in 1905.
Across from the synagogue stood three white supremacists with …
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By Abraham H. Miller
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8/23/17
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For a few years now, I’ve been bothered by the “Alt-left” and the hypocritical silence of the liberal community toward it. I fail to understand how people rationalize its extremism, …
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By Tehilla R. Goldberg
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8/23/17
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