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Principled Preconditions Prevent People Progress
The meaningful statements that each side wants the other to make as a precondition to dialogue are unilateral capitulations to the other side’s truth.
How A Mississippi Farmer Got Me Thinking About Eco-Kashrut
It all began with some eggs.
After 69 Years, an Old New Paradigm is Needed
During the Holocaust we died in vain. We had no homeland and no state.
Collateral Damage When We Can’t Talk About Israel
He said, “I’m not—I mean, I support Israel’s right to exist and everything, it’s just—it brings up so much stuff.”
Modern-Day Moses: The Heroes Who Saved Ethiopian Jews
The heroes who endured torture and risked their lives to save Ethiopian Jews.
Why We Need to Change the Yom Hashoah Narrative
Up until relatively recently, Yom Hashoah was a day of atrocity and victimization at the hands of history.
Ruth… In Other Words
Last summer, when I joined Anshe Sholom B’nai Israel (ASBI), the local Modern Orthodox synagogue in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, I discovered ...
My Havruta and I Disagree on Everything — and That’s a Good Thing
We don't agree on politics and we don't agree on religion, and we talk about them all the time.
Finding the Calling of My Soul, A Conversion Story
Sometimes your soul knows, before your mind, where it needs to go.
Which Seder Plate Item Are You?
Where you fall on a scale from sweet haroset and bitter herbs.