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Oct 7, 2024, 7:40 AM
On the Anniversary of Oct.7
For All Our Sins Al het shehetanu For the babies in their beds For the toddlers with their toys For the families in their safe rooms For the kibbutzniks in their courtyards For the farmers in their fields For the dancers in the desert For the maimed...
Sep 19, 2024, 11:39 PM
The Banality of Antisemitism
Hannah Arendt wrote famously about the banality of evil. She was referring to how ordinary people could perpetrate extraordinary evil. Her ideas arose from her witnessing of Adolf Eichman’s trial in Jerusalem. Bureaucrats could be Nazis. Your next-door neighbor...
Sep 17, 2024, 12:11 AM
Jewish Literacy
I chuckled in nervous recognition the other day, when I read a piece that began, “This summer, I paid my 12-year-old daughter $100 to read a book. As far as mom maneuvers go, it was definitely last ditch and...
Jul 13, 2024, 9:30 PM
Joe and Moses
In the high stakes interview after his disastrous debate, President Joe Biden declared that there was no way he was going to drop out of the race, and then said, with a laugh, “It depends on— on if the...
Feb 27, 2024, 11:49 PM
What Did Oct. 7 Change for American Jews?
Many of us in the diaspora cannot stop talking and writing about Israel since Oct. 7. That is not about to change, with the war against Hamas still unfinished, with so many hostages still captive, and with the worldwide...
Dec 13, 2023, 7:30 PM
Perplexity
PERPLEXITY Twenty Questions for Which I Have No Answer How is it that in much of the world there is “understanding” for the mass atrocities of Oct. 7? How is it that in these same communities there is greater outrage...
Nov 16, 2023, 3:28 AM
Where is God Now?
At times of tragedy, the question invariably arises: where is God now? Whether due to natural disasters (ironically labelled “acts of God” by insurance companies), or humanly induced suffering, the question is posited overtly or lies just beneath the surface. In...
Nov 3, 2023, 6:16 AM
“Tohar Haneshek”: Is There Still a Place for “Purity of Arms”?
Thirty-five years ago, as a young rabbi, and a reservist in the IDF, I wrote an article entitled “Tohar Haneshek” (Purity of Arms): Reclaiming a Jewish Ethic in War. The piece was a plea not to abandon the unique Jewish...
Oct 18, 2023, 12:54 AM
The Open Judaism Blogs #3- We Are All Zionists
It takes tough times to know who your friends are and who are not. It is gratifying to hear the words of President Biden and see monuments in cities across the world alit in blue and white. But the sad reality,...
Oct 13, 2023, 6:53 PM
We have no words
As a rabbi, a man of words, I am supposed to know what to say. As an author, a man of words, I am supposed to know what to write. But as a rabbi, an author, and a Jew I have...
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Barry L. Schwartz is director emeritus of The Jewish Publication Society, rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, New Jersey, and author, most recently, of Open Judaism: A Guide for Believers, Atheists, and Agnostics (JPS, 2023).
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