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Nov 24, 2020, 3:06 PM

Pollard – What Is There to Celebrate?

ONE CAN FEEL SORRY for someone who served a very long prison sentence—some say a disproportionately long sentence—and additional years of restricted movement after parole. It is more difficult to work up empathy for the released convict when his...

Dec 22, 2019, 1:04 PM

Which Hanukkah? There Isn’t Just One!

Freshly baked sufganiyot for Hanukkah. (iStock)

“Which Hanukkah will you be observing this year?” The question, put to me by my friend Ken, caught me off guard. “The only one there is,” I shot back. “The one with the candles and the latkes and the donuts....

Nov 23, 2015, 7:46 PM

Mourning Ezra, Mourning Shadi

Who we mourn and how is a statement about us and who we are. Israel's government (meaning the Prime Minister's office in the name of the government) placed advertising in the print media today expressing its grief at the death...

Jan 21, 2014, 1:28 PM

Self-determination: Israel’s right & responsibility

In 2014, the people of Scotland will vote on whether to remain in the United Kingdom. Should the State of Israel promulgate an official opinion on whether Great Britain is not really British without Scotland? The residents of Catalonia recently...

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Rabbi Peretz Rodman is a Jerusalem-based educator, writer, and translator.

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