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Michael Marmur

Mar 3, 2023, 3:57 PM

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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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)

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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.