Jeremy Kalmanofsky

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Mar 12, 2025, 12:28 PM

Purim, the one day we get drunk enough to tell the truth about God

'The Banquet of Ahasuerus' by Dutch artist Aert de Gelder, 1680s (PD via Wikicommons)

We spend most of the year devoted to the King, but in a world where terrible things happen, a day of blasphemy helps us keep the faith

May 7, 2021, 2:54 PM

I buried hundreds of old Jewish books. Inside each was a Jewish heart

Prayer book (iStock)

As the boxes were placed in their graves, I tried to conjure the hands that held these texts, the eyes that read their print, the lips that said the words aloud

Apr 21, 2020, 8:49 PM

Yeshivas that refuse to teach math, science…or the Holocaust

ILLUSTRATIVE: Boys outside a school in Kiryas Joel, N.Y. July 1, 2014 (AP Photo/Mike Groll)

New York ultra-Orthodox schools must open up their curricula to secular studies, including history -- especially the history of the Shoah

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About Me

Jeremy Kalmanofsky is the rabbi of Ansche Chesed synagogue on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in New York.