Jeff Rubin

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Jul 30, 2024, 4:20 PM

Hamas suppressed student activity on campus by bombing them

In this July 31, 2002 file photo. police and volunteers examine the body of one of the victims of an explosion at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. (photo credit: AP/John McConnico, File)

22 years after the horrific Hebrew U attack, it takes a special kind of gall to pose as a defender of free speech and academic freedom

May 7, 2024, 6:04 PM

An academic year like no other

The academic year is coming to a close and with it, blessedly, will be the anti-Israel and anti-Semitic violence that has roiled college campuses but the dire repercussions of this tumultuous year will be felt for months and years...

Jan 15, 2024, 3:06 PM

Farewell, Sheikh Daud

David Pollock in Saudi Arabia, 2018

David Pollock, a 'kid from the Flatbush Yeshiva' who spoke fluent Arabic, informed and molded US views on the Middle East

Sep 24, 2022, 3:07 PM

For the sin we have sinned by making people feel unwelcome at synagogues

(JTA illustration by Grace Yagel)

Congregations have a duty to proactively ensure that all feel welcome – a side comment can be enough to lose a member forever

Jun 4, 2020, 5:08 PM

Echoes of ‘68

A diminishing number of us remember the bad old days of 1967 and 1968 when our cities were alight with riots and rage. I was in elementary school on April 5, 1968, when a black classmate informed me that...

Dec 14, 2015, 6:20 AM

Pitching Latkes at Dawn

What happens when a young chef cooks latkes on live television for the first time? It’s forty minutes of gut-wrenching anxiety followed by five minutes of adrenaline-infused glory. Our son, Ben Rubin, was asked by Baltimore’s WBAL TV to appear on...

Nov 4, 2014, 9:02 PM

Boston’s lost Jewish neighborhood reborn on Facebook

Residents of the Blue Hill Ave 'hood, which abruptly dispersed 35 years ago, can once again hang out together

Oct 22, 2014, 12:55 PM

From mikvah to baptism of fire to chuppah

On a young woman's conversion experience at another, very different, mikveh in Washington DC

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