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Will Travel for Food

Last week at this time my husband and I were busy scrambling to get our suitcases and 7 month old ...

Is Freedom A Jewish Virtue?

Are you on the freedom bandwagon yet? Celebrations of the concept of freedom seem to be permeating the cultural-political zeitgeist ...

If You Could Only Save One Person…

“Because I am a Jew,” one person said. I had asked the participants of a class to tell me why ...

Belles of the Wall

By Education Fellow Amanda WinerI first heard about Women of the Wall as a counselor in training at Eisner Camp ...

Can We Please Stop Re-Fighting Hanukkah?

Ask any Jew what Hanukkah is about and you are likely to get one of two possible explanations: Maccabees or ...

Who isn’t a Jew?

In the ongoing dustup that started several years ago between Rabbi Daniel Gordis and a series of young rabbis, most ...

A Pivotal Moment

“I hate them,” he said, with quiet conviction.“Who do you hate?” I probed.“Them. The Palestinians. I hate them.”It was at ...

The Reprieve

Were you aware that every year, erev Thanksgiving, a turkey is sent to the White House for the president to ...

Double Vision

Perhaps after I was born, someone sneaked into the hospital nursery and instead of snatching me, stood above me and ...

The Shame of Israel

It was after sustaining over 1,000 rockets fired into Southern Israel from the Gaza Strip since the beginning of 2012, ...

Let’s Dance at The Kotel

The recent reports of women being dragged from the Kotel — the Western Wall — while Torah scrolls were ripped ...

Mr. Prime Minister, Tear Down This Wall!

In June 1975, I was getting ready to leave Israel after a year of study. I bumped into a friend ...

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