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Mar 30, 2023, 3:59 PM

Israel already has a blueprint for a constitution

Rabbi Yaakov Medan, November 07, 2012. (Oren Nahshon / FLASH90) and Hebrew University law professor Ruth Gavison, June 20, 2013. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

20 years ago an Orthodox rabbi and an avowedly secular legal scholar co-authored a remarkable covenant. What came of it?

Jun 12, 2021, 11:01 PM

Why Benjamin Netanyahu treated the Jewish media with contempt

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to reporters at a Jewish Media Summit in Jerusalem, Dec. 6, 2016. (Jewish Media Summit)

Whether because he figured we were in his pocket or dismissed our readers – American Jews – as irrelevent, the PM was often downright rude

May 26, 2021, 11:21 PM

A rabbi’s accuser wanted me to tell her story. Here’s why it took 20 years.

Rabbi Sheldon Zimmerman, seen in a video from Temple Emanu-El in Dallas, where he was senior rabbi from 1985 to 1996. (Screenshot from Vimeo)

My source went public after longstanding sanctions were lifted against the rabbi who committed sexual improprieties. Had he repented enough? She thought not

May 4, 2021, 2:45 PM

What will it take for me to go back to synagogue?

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Are we just lazy or fearful of becoming sick? Or have we become dependent on the safety and security of keeping close to home?

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Gary Rosenblatt is the former editor and publisher of The Jewish Week of New York. Follow him at garyrosenblatt.substack.com.