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How are Milk and Honey Kosher?

yesterday 10

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Sharona Margolin Halickman

Teach Antisemites Jewish history

yesterday 6

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Moshe-Mordechai Van Zuiden

Parshah through the Mediator’s Lens: Acharei-Kedoshim

yesterday 9

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Ari Sliffman

Israel’s Goals In Gaza

yesterday 8

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Sheldon Kirshner

A case for Jewish and Zionist Engagement with the World

yesterday 7

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Maurice Solovitz

The Lubavitcher Rebbe was very different

yesterday 6

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Yoseph Janowski

Bringing the Hostages Home

yesterday 6

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Sherwin Pomerantz

Beautiful, Precious, One-of-a-Kind, But Complicated Memories for Mother’s Day

yesterday 6

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Anastasia Torres-Gil

I’m That Jew, And I’m Raising the Next Generation to Be Too

yesterday 30

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Hadara Ishak

A Child’s War Story

yesterday 6

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Marc Kornblatt

Why I, an Israeli, Work for J Street

As an Israeli, it’s not obvious to dedicate your career to influencing American policy. But for me, joining J Street—a pro-Israel, pro-peace, pro-...

previous day 10

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Gal Peleg Laniado

Can Israel Defeat The Spectre Of The Short Term? 

Hadrian said to Rabbi Joshua: “Mighty is the lamb that can survive among seventy wolves.” And he replied: “Mighty is the shepherd who can save and...

previous day 10

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Jonathan Rosenoer

Who you gonna call

When something’s strange in the world. When people behave off the wall. When massacres are considered virtuous. When woke means going to sleep....

previous day 3

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Yoseph Janowski

What is Holiness?

The biblical portion Kedoshim, 19:1-20:26, is read together with the prior portion of Aharei Mot during non-leap years, as happens during the week...

previous day 10

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Israel Drazin

Meet Ittay Flescher, Fellow Peacenik

His New Book, “The Holy and the Broken: A cry for peace from a land that must be shared” Meet Ittay Flescher, Peacenik, Mench, and Writer of...

previous day 10

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Abe Gurko

Simon Harris & Fine Gael’s Vendetta Against Israel

The relationship between Jerusalem and Dublin, certainly in modern times, has been one defined by conflict and controversy. Despite so much in...

previous day 10

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Daniel Odowd

My Grandfather’s Blueprint for our People

My grandfather William Verstandig (Z”l) was one tough dude. After escaping the Nazis as a teenager, he was diagnosed with cancer and given less than...

previous day 10

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Ari M. Berman

When will it ever end?

Introduction: The film “Jud Süß 1940,” which is better known in English as “The Jew Ziss” is considered to express topics directly or...

previous day 10

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David Ramati

Abortion, #FreePalestine & Hannah Einbinder

Shalom, Hannah. Your recent instagram post was upsetting for multiple reasons. My name is Hallel, and I’m a liberal Zionist activist. I had a safe,...

previous day 10

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Hallel Silverman

Why I Will Not Stay Silent

Since October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched the deadliest terrorist attack against Israel in decades, I made a clear decision both as an Israeli...

previous day 10

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Alexander Schechter

Torah is the only reality in modern times

Are you into AI? I keep on seeing different aspects of it all around me. Personally, I am slow to technology, and as a writer, I want my own brain...

monday 60

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Yulia Medovoy Edelshtain

Don’t Call Me a Hero

By far, the hardest thing to adjust to after returning to civilian life from the army—from the war—is how quick people are to call me a hero.  I am...

monday 40

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Shilo Sapir

Reflections on the 80th Anniversary of VE Day: Its Meaning for America & Jews

On May 8th the world will mark the 80th anniversary of VE (Victory in Europe) Day. The defeat of Nazi Germany by the allied forces marked a...

monday 10

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Steven Windmueller

The joy of Jewish genealogy

Who am I? This is a question that can have many answers. On a simple level, you are who you see in the mirror. On a deeper level, each person is a...

monday 10

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Ariel Galian

The Jewess Patriot: Rosenberg Versus Emhoff – It’s Daddy’s Girls

Take politics out of the story.  Close your eyes and imagine a Chanukah gathering, a peaceful protest for ending antisemitism or a local fundraiser...

monday 1

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Cindy Grosz

Let Us Recognize How Far Jewish-Catholic Relations Have Come

The death of Pope Francis was mourned by many Jewish groups, a sign of how far Catholic-Jewish relations have come in recent decades. Indeed, in a...

monday 10

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Kenneth Jacobson

Donald Trump and Benito Mussolini’s Sons-In-Law: A Cautionary Tale

While not an elected leader per se, though influential nonetheless, the figure of Galeazzo Ciano (pronounced “Chano”), was tapped by Italian...

monday 2

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Warren J. Blumenfeld

The Great Miscalculation Has Led to the Great Recalibration

In the aftermath of October 7, 2023, a seismic awakening has rippled through the Jewish world. The sense of shock, betrayal, and disbelief wasn’t...

monday 10

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Daniel Rosen

From Darkness to Light- Tazria-Metzora 5785

For those keeping score- we’re marking today an aufruf, a birthday, and a yartzeit. If you throw in a bris or baby naming, and a bar or bar...

monday 1

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Ben Einsidler

Of Fires, Faces and Fields. Knowing Our Outer Limits: Aharei Mot-Kedoshim

(Vayikra/Leviticus 16:1-2 ) (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:9 ) (Vayikra/Leviticus 19:27 ) Parshiot Aharei Mot and Kedoshim are usually paired together as a...

monday 2

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J.j Gross

The Islamic Republic’s Challenges in the Face of Military Strikes on Its Bases

The Islamic Republic claims to possess military superiority and an overwhelming number of combat-ready soldiers. However, any professional observer...

monday 10

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Victoria Azad

The Need to Build a Culture of Constant Israel Advocacy

There is an important and under-discussed topic in the Orthodox community that needs to be brought to attention. Israel advocacy should not and...

monday 1

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Chloe Baker

What’s the Truth About …

The Orthodox Union regularly publishes Jewish Action, a glossy quarterly magazine that, in my opinion, covers the Orthodox world better than any...

monday 4

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Michael Feldstein

It’s Time to Think Bigger: Solving Global Hunger

As Jews gathered around the Seder table this year—as we have for thousands of years—to recount the story of our liberation from Egypt, one line...

monday 30

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Jacob Sztokman

Al Jolson And The Jazz Singer

Al Jolson was in a class all by himself. From about 1912 until 1934, he was the most highly paid entertainer in the United States. What Enrico...

monday 2

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Sheldon Kirshner

Teachers Grief: The Hidden Mourning on Israel’s Memorial Day 2025

This year’s Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Hostilities (2025/5785) brought to light a deeply personal aspect of this solemn...

monday 40

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Orly Lavi Travish

Nations to Israel: Don’t do what we do

9/11. Western allies smashed Afghanistan and Iraq. Civilians died. Many civilians. But the West didn’t stop. They attacked the attackers. World War...

monday 1

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Yoseph Janowski

An entanglement of suffering. Blake’s ennui.

The clock is ticking I don’t have long to write The lake is at 9. A 30-minute drive then the donning of gear in the carpark, registration then a...

monday 30

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Rod Kersh

If Bonhoeffer Were a Student at the University of Maryland

B’’H For many Jewish college students, the response from people we deemed to be friends or at least neutral observers of the Middle East to the...

monday 30

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Rivka Silinsky

Missing in Action – Michelle Obama & The Hostages

In 2014, then First Lady Michelle Obama admirably helped lead a global campaign to rescue 276 schoolgirls who had been taken hostage by Boko Haram,...

monday 30

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Ari M. Berman

A Peek into The Super-Conscious

In this week’s Torah portion, we learn about the high priest entering the Holy of Holies on the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, to secure...

04.05.2025 7

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Lazer Gurkow

Niftar or Dead?

Niftar or Dead?

The Torah introduces the laws of the sacrificial services of Yom Kippur by noting that Hashem relayed them to Moses after the deaths (acharei mot)...

04.05.2025 4

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Reuven Chaim Klein

Tribe: A Return to Global Family

In the year 2000 I took my social-justice Judaism on a trip to the Palestinian Territories. I planned to teach (and love) Palestinian children in...

04.05.2025 5

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Janel Moses

Neither Peacenik nor Kahanist

Neither Peacenik nor Kahanist

A popular misconception is that you are either a foolhardy peacenik who doesn’t know how to defend the country or you are an extremist nationalist...

04.05.2025 40

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Andy Blumenthal

Exodus Without End: The Ongoing Struggle for Jewish Identity in a Broken World

In every generation, Jews are called to see themselves as if they personally went out from Egypt. This ritual refrain is more than liturgy—it’s a...

04.05.2025 3

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Vincent James Hooper

Bikers, Amish, and Bitter Cold: My U.S. Adventures

Bikers, Amish, and Bitter Cold: My U.S. Adventures

Traveling as a religious Jew in the U.S. is easier than anywhere but Israel. Across 76 trips (yes—I counted and checked), I’ve had some special...

04.05.2025 7

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Ben Lazarus

Whose Torah is it?

*Originally published February 2022 in NJJN A year ago our rabbi gave me the privilege of delivering the Shabbat morning sermon to our...

04.05.2025 8

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Ari M. Berman

Forgotten Peace

A message from Peace: Don’t forget me.  We must revive the Israeli-Palestinian peace process. An initiative that has lain dormant for the last...

04.05.2025 10

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Elliot Weiner

Israel and the Druze in Syria

Israel and the Druze in Syria

Many people in Israel and overseas are trying to understand what the role of Israel should be in the dramatic events involving the Druze in Syria...

04.05.2025 10

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Reda Mansour

Bibi’s final speech to the nation

Bibi’s final speech to the nation

I had a dream the other night that the current Prime Minister of Israel —Mr. Benjamin Netanyahu, or Bibi, as he likes to be called—actually...

04.05.2025 10

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Ron Kronish