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Mar 3, 2023, 3:57 PM
Perversity instead of piety
In these tumultuous days, perversity replaces piety. Here is one example. Some 90 years ago in Berlin, Abraham Joshua Heschel was shocked to realize that with all the comings and goings of city life he had failed to notice that...
Feb 13, 2023, 11:53 AM
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When a rabbi knows why earthquakes devastated Turkey and Syria
A man walks over debris of collapsed buildings in Hatay, Turkey, February 11, 2023. (Hussein Malla/AP)
In hokey theodicy, disasters may vary, but glib explanations remain. For God's sake, we must replace them with empathy
Jan 3, 2023, 4:37 PM
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A government that uses Torah as a spade to dig with
Religious Zionist Party head MK Bezalel Smotrich attends the Cohen Benediction priestly blessing at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, during the Jewish holiday of Passover, April 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
With Israeli democracy under assault in the name of Judaism, we – rabbis from across the denominational spectrum – are compelled to speak out
Nov 28, 2022, 3:02 PM
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I hope I am crying wolf
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir, at a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane, in Jerusalem, on November 10, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
The new government will strip Israeli democracy of its assets, in the name of tradition and security. It's going to be ugly, unless we do all we can to stop it
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Rabbi Michael Marmur is associate professor of Jewish theology at Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion in Jerusalem, and a member of the board of Rabbis for Human Rights.