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Chana Yehudis Zahav
Oct 3, 2023, 5:57 AM
Flaming Headlines
Why are all the rabbis so evil? What do all Hareidim throw rocks at people? Why do all secular women wear mini skirts and drink all day? Why are all Tel Avivians anti religious bigots? Why are all settlers...
Ben Rothke
Mar 3, 2022, 5:32 PM
Book review: Bridging Traditions
I thought of the idiom "don't judge a book by its cover" after I started reading Bridging Traditions: Demystifying Differences Between Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jews (O-U Press) by Rabbi Haim Jachter. I thought that aside from kitniyot during Passover and starting selichot much earlier, Sephardic...
Elchanan Poupko
Oct 7, 2021, 6:42 AM
Our Blindspot for Rabbi Ovadia Yosef
As we mark the 3rd of Cheshvan, the day Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passed away, Jews worldwide will be remembering his outstanding scholarship, leadership, compassion, and knowledge. Yet from a general Jewish perspective, the Jewish community as a whole is...
Sharona Margolin Halickman
Jul 15, 2021, 1:36 PM
Should we update the Nachem prayer?
On Tisha B’Av afternoon, the Nachem prayer is added into the amida of the Mincha service: Console O Lord our God, The mourners of Zion The mourners of Jerusalem, And the city that is in sorrow, laid waste, Scorned and desolate; That grieves for the...
Sharona Margolin Halickman
Dec 31, 2019, 7:19 PM
The return of the lost tribes
After the jealousy and deceit that we read about over the last few weeks, in Parshat Vayigash, all of Yaakov’s children are reunited. Yosef reveals who he is and does not hold a grudge against his brothers for how...
Andy Blumenthal
Nov 8, 2019, 5:17 AM
Righting Wrongs To Sephardim
There was a beautiful "Arts and Ideas" event last night at the Bender Jewish Community Center of Greater Washington, co-sponsored by Magen David Sephardic Synagogue. It was the kickoff of the Fall Arts Festival, with a film screening of The...
Leonard Grunstein
Sep 19, 2019, 1:56 AM
Be Prepared to Save a Life; Don’t Shirk Responsibility
When I was a young boy, we regularly visited the Babbe, my mom’s mother and our only grandparent who survived the Holocaust. On one occasion, my dad, of blessed memory, and I were waiting at the elevator to go...
Gila Berkowitz
Jun 17, 2019, 2:00 AM
Talking Heads
In Israel headgear tells you volumes about a person’s cultural and religious opinions. In this post we examine women’s headdress and hair styles. Another time we’ll give men their due. Since ancient times married Jewish women covered their hair, but...
Alisa Bodner
Dec 7, 2018, 8:30 AM
The 8,000 Remaining Jews of Ethiopia: A Photo Frozen in Time
I glanced at the photo and broke out in an immediate smile. The memories of the summer camp in the remaining Jewish community of Ethiopia, still etched in my mind one year later. Avital recently returned from Ethiopia and...
Haim Amsellem
Aug 24, 2016, 10:19 PM
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