Noah E Abramowitz

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Apr 30, 2025, 5:29 PM

77 Zionist things you think other Zionists don’t think

Another Independence Day, following another Memorial Day, joins the series of national commemorations we have marked while deeply divided, since the judicial reforms until today, in our second year of war. It seems that everyone can disagree with each...

Mar 6, 2025, 10:51 AM

Parashat Zakhor and the transfer temptation

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You can read this passage to support Meir Kahane's expulsion plan, but that's simply not the Jewish way

Apr 19, 2024, 11:53 AM

There can be miracles; was this one?

A text/post/quote you may have seen quotes Prof. Maximilian Abitbol, "who is also an expert in the defense industry", giving a probability calculation postulating Divine Intervention in Saturday Night's strike from Iran. I can't find any publications from Prof. Abitbol...

Mar 14, 2024, 12:47 AM

No more half measures; the end of hesder

As a young man in Bnei Akiva, we were introduced to the age-old debate: Torah vs. Army. The discussion was, as religious people, we should understand that doing God’s Will is inherently tied to personal, familial, and national success....

Jul 27, 2023, 9:30 AM

Waiting for the donkey

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Justice Minister Yariv Levin as the Knesset votes to enact the 'reasonableness' law, July 24, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)

Instead of claiming the messiah is coming, I vote we ready a saddle and do the most we can as individuals to keep building

Feb 12, 2023, 7:33 AM

At the heart, and soul, of the matter

Credits: Lisa Rich Photography

Thursday, last week, was a very, very painful day for me. The morning began with an article from Rav Shmuel Eliyahu from the week’s issue of ‘Olam Katan’, a Dati Leumi newsletter which goes around many shuls. In far more...

Mar 3, 2022, 11:59 AM

Thou Shalt Care (sic. The Bible, all of it)

There is no Mitzvah to care. There is definitely nothing in the books that says that one must. But some things don’t need to be written. We know nothing about what the “corruption” which filled the Earth in the Beginning,...

Sep 20, 2021, 5:49 PM

At the Cost of Custom

Standard European. Chabad. Joint (Kibbutz HaDati). Sephard with additions. Sephardic. Conservative. Five Machzorim, one Selihot book. This is the story of my Yom Kippur. Every year a group called Katif Yisraeli sends students and other post army and national service youngsters...

May 9, 2021, 2:00 AM

We don’t need a flag march now

Six years ago, I knew I’d succeeded as a blogger. I had a featured blog on this platform with over a thousand shares, which strangers commented on, and about which the reactions were divided. I also received incredibly angry messages,...

Feb 16, 2021, 2:36 PM

Stop saying ‘she wears pants.’ Just…stop.

(Images via iStock, montage by The Times of Israel)

It is absurd to talk about a woman's wardrobe as if this was a modest conversation – as if we men are slaves to our evil inclination

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Noah E Abramowitz, Jerusalemite American, an angry young man with his foot in his mouth and his heart in his hand; eleven years in Israel, twelve years in informal youth education, thirteen years writing about anything and everything. Religious, Zionist, unapologetic and unsure.

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