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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...

Aug 16, 2023, 4:01 PM

The right to bare arms

Illustrative. Protest organizer Shikma Bressler at a rally against the government's planned judicial overhaul outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)

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

At the Gleis (Platform) 17 Memorial in Berlin, remembrance. (Photo credit: Melanie Roth Gorelick)

“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...

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...

Jul 23, 2023, 8:32 PM

A True Leader Would Care!

Protestors gather on streets and towns throughout Israel. This photo was taken in Givatyaim in June 2023. Photo credit: Sari Ellen

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

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;...

Jul 21, 2023, 3:41 PM

Brukhim Habaim/Brukhot Habaot: The Gezer Regional Council adopted a bi-gendered alphabet for the entrance to their offices. Image: Gezer Regional Council.

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

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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

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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