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Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper
Our former rabbi victimized women. Here's how we made our synagogue safer.
Kesher Israel reacted swiftly and decisively to the illegal actions by its longtime rabbi Barry Freundel
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
Shira Pasternak Be'eri
The lesson of my empty window
How a pigeon family encouraged me to change the way I take in the world
Bracha Goldstein
Bracha Goldstein
Shattered belief
I confessed my sins to God. I also took Him to task. That’s all over now.
Illustrative. Jews Praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur, by Maurycy Gottlieb, 1878. (Wikipedia)
Dena Freundlich
Dena Freundlich
Reflect, repent, but don’t berate yourself
Jewish holidays revolve around historical events, so why doesn’t Yom Kippur?
Activists demonstrate in central Jerusalem, against the escalation of violence, calling for a peaceful solution with the Palestinians, October 10, 2015. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Levi Weiman-Kelman
Levi Weiman-Kelman
Collective accountability and the sin of losing hope
Yom Kippur calls on us to reject unworthy leaders and rebuff those who only know how to strike fear in us
Hammer of justice (iStock)
Yedidia Z. Stern
Yedidia Z. Stern
Guilt vs. Responsibility
Yom Kippur offers a unique legal paradigm in which individuals, communities and the State make an internal promise to be good
Man blowing shofar (iStock)
Avi Weiss
Avi Weiss
On this Yom Kippur – Shema: Hear, listen, hearken
May we recognize that the call to hear the blast of the shofar is a call for redemption
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Olivier Jack Melnick
Olivier Jack Melnick
Sep 20, 2018, 1:30 AM
Can a Biblical Zionist Love the Palestinians?
Whenever one puts biblical, Zionist and Palestinian in the same sentence, definitions are in order. Unity might never be fully achieved, but it should never be because of lack of clarity. First what I mean by biblical is “in accordance...
Andrew Cooper
Andrew Cooper
Sep 20, 2018, 1:26 AM
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Our former rabbi victimized women. Here's how we made our synagogue safer.
Kesher Israel (Wikimedia Commons)
Kesher Israel reacted swiftly and decisively to the illegal actions by its longtime rabbi Barry Freundel
Nesanel Yoel Safran
Nesanel Yoel Safran
Sep 19, 2018, 11:10 PM
My Psychic Nose Job
It was happening again. Again I’d found myself in a group social setting and again was suffering from Overunder Syndrome (OUS). For those of you unfamiliar with this condition (and for those of you who are, but in undiagnosed form), I’ll...
Kenneth Waltzer
Kenneth Waltzer
Sep 19, 2018, 11:09 PM
A Response at UM that is Not a Response
An associate professor in the American Culture program at the University of Michigan refused to write a recommendation for a student, Abigail Ingber, who seeks to study in Tel Aviv. John Cheney-Lippold informed the student, to whom he had...
Fred Maroun
Fred Maroun
Sep 19, 2018, 11:07 PM
Three thousand years of mourning, but the people of Israel live
Every time the Jewish people mourn, I am struck by the profound sorrow and the deep humility of the mourning. The death of Israeli-American Ari Fuld, husband, father of four, former Israeli soldier, reservist, and pro-Israel advocate, is no...
Raymond M. Berger
Raymond M. Berger
Sep 19, 2018, 11:04 PM
Why Are They Against Us?
It is impossible to determine all the sources of a hostility that is  out of proportion to any real offenses Israel may have committed. These days it feels like Israel is the world’s punching bag. Israel is not a perfect country. But...
Emir Eksioglu
Sep 19, 2018, 11:00 PM
President Erdogan’s fools cause great damage to himself
Most people who will read this article probably thinks that the press in Turkey does not have high quality as in the most other areas. They are not wrong at all, but it certainly should not be related to...
Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg
Rachel Shenhav-Goldberg
Sep 19, 2018, 10:59 PM
Yom Kippur Meditation: Victims or Perpetrators?
When violence occurs, sociologists refer to four sorts of people: victims, perpetrators, bystander, and rescuers. There is no doubt that in the first half of the 20th century, Jews were primarily victims. More than 70 years have passed since the...
Alex Olivera
Alex Olivera
Sep 19, 2018, 2:11 PM
What about ”Nineveh” ?
Many questions started to open as I hear of the murder of Ari Fuld e”l. A controversial character, very much loved by the extreme right. And there is indeed a sense of “right-fullness” in people that share Ari’s vision....
Jack Yehoshua Berger
Jack Yehoshua Berger
Sep 19, 2018, 2:10 PM
I won a bet with a Rabbi
How shall we sing the L-rd’s song in a strange land? If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, let my right hand forget her cunning. If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleave to the roof of my...
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