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As Parashat Va’et’hanan opens, Moses is pleading for forgiveness, in order to be permitted to enter the promised land along ...

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

 What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem become ...

Recently a friend of mine made a very astute point: “We’re from the Midwest. We don’t do conflict.”His offhanded comment ...

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

“To celebrate freedom and democracy while forgetting America’s origins in a slavery economy is patriotism a’ la carte.” A recent ...

It was a freezing afternoon outside Warsaw in March 2012, and I was sitting in a cramped hut listening to ...

Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...

As of yesterday, Monday July 28th, we Jews have begun “The Nine Days.”You may not know what I’m talking about, ...

A week after coming home from a month in Israel, my soul remains immersed there. The tension in Israel, charged ...

Yesterday, the ISJL hosted students from Operation Understanding, an organization whose mission is to develop a group of young African ...

On July 27, the 29th of Tammuz, I will observe the 909th yahrtzeit of Rabbi Shlomo Yizhaki, better known as ...