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![]() Shmuly YanklowitzThe Times of Israel (Blogs) |
In the grocery store this spring, you’ll likely come across some food items labeled “kosher for Passover.” A lot of us might be asking: What...
For many of us in the Jewish world, we find the avoidance of meat to be a meaningful Jewish practice. It makes keeping kosher easier, and it benefits...
This is a statement, made by members of Torat Chayim, an international group of Orthodox rabbis, as signed below. We have watched events in Israel in...
For Jews passionate about social justice, the task of fixing the entire world, with all its disasters and tragedies, can feel both overwhelming and,...
The very first thing we learn from the Torah about human beings is that we’re made in the image of God. We’re taught in the first chapter of the...
For time immemorial, the doctors have played an indispensable part in Jewish life. We know that when Maimonides wasn’t changing the world as a...
Imagine taking someone from 10 years ago in a time machine to a grocery store in America today. In some ways it might look the same, but I think the...
We all know that the miracle of giving birth to a child is among the most important, personal, sacred events that someone can experience in the course...
In what feels like a terrifying regression to the 1890s, we are faced with the fact that children in America, “as young as 13,” have been put to...
For children who require foster care, all of life is an unimaginable challenge. Their immediate families, for one reason or another, have failed them,...
In the story of the Exodus, there’s one understated element of the Israelites’ enslavement that I find to be emblematic of an acute kind of...
We’ve known for far too long that America’s teachers are overworked, underpaid and burned out, tending to our kids all day and grading papers all...
In an egregious abuse of the vulnerable among us, undocumented immigrants detained by ICE have been effectively “sold” to private companies to...
When Senators Kyrsten Sinema and Thom Tillis’s piece of lame-duck immigration legislation died in the Senate last week, I felt a great deal of...
In an era when it’s easy for us to dwell endlessly on what the opposite end of the political spectrum is doing, I have a critique of both sides of...