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Aaron David Fruh
Sep 15, 2023, 1:54 PM
I Felt My Legs Were Praying: Jewish Advocacy in Civil Rights Is Urgent Still
Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walked with Dr. Martin Luther King in Alabama from Selma to Montgomery on March 21, 1963. Soon after, Rabbi Heschel would say, “For many of us, the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest...
Sarah Mann
Aug 16, 2023, 4:01 PM
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The right to bare arms
If public bus drivers can become modesty police, women's rights are in real danger - as is the future here for the likes of liberal me
Melanie Roth Gorelick
Aug 14, 2023, 8:09 PM
In Berlin, Memorials, Remembrance and Dialogue
“What a fun city, one of my favorites,” friends said to me as I was leaving for Berlin. I tried to smile, but I was uneasy. As a Jewish communal professional, I’ve led trips to Auschwitz and visited concentration camps...
David K. Rees
Jul 28, 2023, 11:52 AM
An open letter to Shikma Bressler: There is a better way
Dear Shikma, I am addressing this letter to you for two reasons. The first is that for many weeks I have been at Kaplan protesting the government’s assault on democracy. While my Hebrew is still terrible, all I need to...
Sari Ellen
Jul 23, 2023, 8:32 PM
A True Leader Would Care!
A true leader would care when hundreds of thousands of citizens protest in sweltering heat, 29 weeks straight gathering on Derech HaShalom, דרך השלוםת, in English "The Way of Peace." Day after day, week after week, month after month. Heart and soul of...
Richard Kronenfeld
Jul 21, 2023, 11:03 PM
Trading Down
History is replete with one-sided trades: Eisav trading his birthright to Yaakov for a bowl of lentil stew with a side order of bread; Native Americans trading title to Manhattan Island to Peter Minuit for $24 worth of trinkets;...
Judy Halper
Jul 21, 2023, 3:41 PM
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While the government demands male-only language in official documents, a new non-gendered Hebrew may be the solution
Sergio Restelli
Jul 14, 2023, 6:04 PM
Human rights and national security
With the constant changing nature of combat and terrorism and with lines blurring in between civilian and military engagement, one case of a country trying its own civilians in military courts is that of Pakistan. On the 31st of May,...
Carol Silver Elliott
Jul 12, 2023, 6:54 PM
You Can’t
In our world of older adult services, it is far too frequent to hear the litany of “you can’t” or “they can’t.” We “can’t” give an elder with dementia access to the outdoors. We “can’t” allow people a choice...
Shermeen Yousif
Jul 8, 2023, 3:09 PM
After Two Decades of a Corruption Era in Iraq
On April 12, 2023, the Iraqi Government and the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) formalized their commitment to act against corruption by signing a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that aims to foster transparency, accountability, and integrity within both the...
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