May 21, 2013
12:03 pm

Collateral Benefits to Take Away

Much talk about conflicts these days is about collateral damage. Let's talk about ...

March 20, 2013
4:08 pm

Israel Spring: A Passover Seder Liberation Supplement

The last Jerusalem almond flurries flutter away as leaves bud forth. Inside, many of us scour our homes, businesses, cafés.......

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March 7, 2013
7:16 pm

Matza and Roses

Horrified and helpless, the crowds — I among them — looked up at the burning building, saw girl after girl appear at the reddened windows, pause for a terrified......

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February 13, 2013
2:03 am

Esther at the Wall?

Adar is the Hebrew month of masquerade, parody, and inversion, the month of Purim. In the Scroll of Esther, I......

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February 6, 2013
11:52 pm

King Herod’s monument, tomb or temple?

Why is the monumental exhibit at the Israel Museum, “Herod the Great: The King's Final Journey” making such a buzz? And why did the museum invest in Herod more......

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December 18, 2012
5:33 pm

Israeli Judaism – Under Arrest

Now that the war is over, we have returned to everyday Jerusalem challenges. The first of this Hebrew month of Tevet was the twenty-fourth anniversary of Women of the Wall –......

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November 16, 2012
4:15 pm

Collaboration under fire

By Bonna Devora Haberman & Kadar Herini War is raging. Missiles are exploding closer and closer to our center core. We contract into fear, mourn the loss of life and devastation,......

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October 24, 2012
8:40 am

Scaling the Western wall

Many people are appalled by the recent arrests of women at the Western Wall for donning a tallit prayer shawl and reciting the Shma – a central credo of Jewish faith. How......

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October 17, 2012
4:20 pm

The wailing shawl

On my way in to the Western Wall plaza for Rosh Hodesh prayers with Women of the Wall this morning, the security officer held me for 10 minutes while......

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September 28, 2012
12:56 pm

Yizkor tears

This past week, traffic jammed the roads leading to the graves lined up on the hills at the entrance to Jerusalem -- cars driven to visit our deceased in......

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August 8, 2012
2:47 pm

Romeo and Juliet in Jerusalem: A plea to lovers’ families and friends

From the season of mourning excess hatred among the Jewish People, we arise to celebrate love. The Talmud recalls young women dressing in simple white garments and going......

July 5, 2012
10:11 pm

Why extremists always focus on women

As the Muslim Brotherhood prepares to take elected office in Egypt, and in the aftermath of the chief rabbis' emergency meeting to address the threat open-minded, egalitarian Judaism poses to Israel,......

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June 21, 2012
11:52 am

Open society shut down at the Western Wall

This first morning of the month of Tammuz, the month in which we begin to count the days toward commemorating the destruction of Jerusalem, Israeli police detained......

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April 19, 2012
2:55 pm

From ‘is’ to ‘ought’: An open letter to Peter Beinart

Thank you for contributing passionately to the conversation about Zionism. The significance of Israel to American Jewry is indisputable. As different communities of the Jewish People evolve, many of......

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Bonna Devora Haberman

Bonna Devora Haberman is the author of 'Israeli Feminism Liberating Judaism: Blood and Ink' and 'ReReading Israel: The Spirit of the Matter… [More]
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