Aaron Flanzraich

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Apr 13, 2016, 11:16 PM

Honest Disclosure and Bernie Sanders

Honest disclosure: I have never met Simone Zimmerman. Second honest disclosure: Simone Zimmerman has never met the State of Israel. I write this not as a screed against Simone, Bernie Sander’s recently named "Jewish Outreach Director” in advance of the New...

Aug 29, 2014, 4:07 PM

Being Tribal is Noble

Ben Hecht – journalist, writers, comedian, screenwriter par excellence – also stands as one of the early, and great Jewish American Zionists (when time permits, Google him with the words “Perfidy”. It is quite a story…). When the young...

May 11, 2014, 10:07 AM

Not just any holocaust

A trip to Poland laid bare the Shoah's unique horror and the risk that Europe is blurring the distinctions

Mar 12, 2014, 4:24 PM

Do airplanes save lives?

Next week is Purim, but this past week the fragility of life was on our television screens. The tragic loss of Malaysia Air flight 370 was a not so subtle reminder that life’s music, as the poet Rilke sardonically...

Mar 6, 2014, 11:27 PM

AIPAC, the center of Jewish gravity

What other Jewish organization could gather 500 rabbis of all denominations in one room?

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About Me

Aaron Flanzraich is the Senior Rabbi at Beth Sholom Synagogue in Toronto, Canada and the author of “The Small, Still Voice” an argument against Jewish fundamentalism.