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Jan 17, 2024, 4:11 PM

Not alone: US Jewish Studies scholars in solidarity with our Israeli colleagues

The author and Yoram Bitton (HUC) with Dr. Chana Abuchatzera of Achva College. (courtesy)

Last week, I had the special opportunity to travel to Israel. I was part of a group of 21 scholars of Jewish Studies who came to show solidarity with our Israeli colleagues. We came to see, to listen, to...

May 14, 2021, 4:13 PM

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Tuning in from afar: I reach across the sea with my radio app

I listen to Israel Army radio's finest, interrupted by sirens warning of incoming missiles, and remember that this news isn’t a far-away abstract story

Jan 25, 2021, 11:34 AM

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The prophetic charge of Amanda Gorman’s ‘The Hill We Climb’

American poet Amanda Gorman reads a poem during the 59th Presidential Inauguration at the US Capitol in Washington, January 20, 2021. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky, Pool)

In a moment that calls for a reckoning with the demons of our history, the poet pushes each one of us to '...step out of the shade aflame and unafraid'

Sep 27, 2020, 11:19 AM

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Angels and dust: A Yom Kippur conversation with Leonard Cohen 5781

People ride their bicycles along the empty road in Jerusalem, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, October 9, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

The Day of Atonement doesn't mean we stop doing wrong; it means we can pause and appreciate how God's patience with humanity allows us to continue to grow

Jun 19, 2020, 4:03 PM

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Race in America: We must all listen more intently

UNSPECIFIED - MARCH 13: "Leaders of the protest, holding flags, from left Bishop James Shannon, Rabbi Abraham Heschel, Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Maurice Eisendrath." Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Arlington Cemetery, February 6, 1968. Published February 7, 1968. (Photo by Charles Del Vecchio/Washington Post/Getty Images)

We Yeshiva U. professors know lecturing on Jewish suffering won’t actually combat persecution, so we’re hosting ’teach-ins,’ to determine how the past can energize our present

About Me

Ronnie Perelis is the Chief Rabbi Dr. Isaac Abraham and Jelena (Rachel) Alcalay Associate Professor of Sephardic Studies at Yeshiva University and the director of the Rabbi Arthur Schneier Program for International Affairs of Yeshiva University. Prof. Perelis explores the complex relationship between Iberian and Jewish culture in his scholarship and teaching. Perelis believes that the past can inform and energize the present.