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Dec 24, 2024, 4:48 AM
Ancient Rabbis Tried to Cancel Hanukkah: Here’s Why They Didn’t Succeed
Over 1,500 years ago, Hanukkah was almost canceled. The reason it wasn’t offers a path forward in today’s age of extreme unpredictability. Hanukkah, which literally means “dedication,” was instituted nearly 2,200 years ago by the Maccabees to commemorate their rededication...
Jul 18, 2024, 6:40 AM
What does God want?
What does God want from us? Spoiler alert: I don’t know. Sacred Jewish texts have grappled with this question for millenia, and they’ve offered answers ranging from God doesn’t want anything to God wants total submission. This week’s Torah portion,...
May 9, 2024, 11:08 AM
Jewish support for anti-Zionism doesn’t mean it’s not antisemitic
In Macklemore’s new anthem for the anti-Israel protests spreading across college campuses, he raps: “we see the lies in them, claiming it’s antisemitic to be anti-Zionist. I’ve seen Jewish brothers and sisters out there and riding in solidarity and...
Mar 19, 2024, 1:06 AM
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A slightly different Purim for a very different year
This holiday of 'feasting and merrymaking' can be a chance to focus on the Esther story's ethical and spiritual complexities
Dec 29, 2023, 3:32 PM
Upstanders in the Israel-Hamas Conflict: From Prophecy to Tokhahah
As debates over the Israel-Hamas conflict continue to escalate, I’ve been thinking about what Rabbi Ḥanina said almost two millennia ago: “Jerusalem was destroyed because the people did not rebuke one another” (Shabbat 119b). At first glance, it seems like...
Oct 6, 2021, 2:57 PM
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Rabbi David Eliach: My sabba’s life of education
My grandfather saw the world as one large classroom in which we are all forever learning or teaching. Here are 5 of the lessons he taught me
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Ayalon Eliach is Chief Ideas Officer at Lippman Kanfer Foundation for Living Torah and a Rabbinic Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute.
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