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Aug 7, 2023, 5:58 AM
Confronting the Falsehood of “You Killed God”
"You killed God." I have been the target of this ancient libel on several occasions in my life. My earliest memory dates back to my brief enrolment in public elementary school where attention was drawn to my Jewishness in...
Apr 12, 2023, 9:18 PM
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Mimouna, when Jews and Arabs celebrate together
Israelis at a Mimuna celebrations in the city of Beit Shemesh on April 7, 2018. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
The end-of-Passover fete reflects a cultural symbiosis unique to Morocco, where Jews were more welcome than elsewhere
Mar 31, 2023, 11:50 PM
Juxtaposing Judaism and the State
In his book The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature, William James, the greatest American philosopher and leading thinker of the late nineteenth century suggests that something is true only insofar as it works. In light...
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Jimmy Bitton, B.Ed., M.A. teaches Jewish history at the Anne & Max Tanenbaum Community Hebrew Academy of Toronto. He is a published writer in Israel, Canada, the United States and Italy.