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Robin B. Zeiger

Apr 21, 2017, 6:25 PM

The deep inner voice of change

(Robin B. Zeiger)

A post-Passover meditation on the call to stray off the beaten path of humanity

Apr 18, 2017, 1:06 AM

The reason the Israelites were in the desert for 40 years was that they, like all of us, learn very slowly

Apr 18, 2017, 1:02 AM

Pastor Dumisani and Mizrahi Jews

How a Christian outsider managed to insert the modern Jewish exodus from Arab lands into the larger Jewish narrative

Yossi Klein Halevi

Apr 16, 2017, 3:10 PM

On not being Yossi Klein

Illustrative: Religious Zionist students praying at a hesder yeshiva. (The hesder program which combines advanced Talmudic studies with military service in the Israel Defense Forces, usually within a Religious Zionist framework.) (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

The (other) columnist's rage at religious Zionists highlights the real need for mature discourse among disparate camps

Malynnda Littky-Porath

Apr 12, 2017, 10:01 AM

Pass over the rainbow

When her seder plans went awry, the alternative yielded far more than she could have hoped for

Apr 12, 2017, 6:46 AM

10 Transgender Plagues Of Passover — Parted Seas And Gender Binaries

I was at one time a medical student. I am on hiatus, indefinitely, having been forced to step away when my school’s administration created and perpetuated an unsafe environment for me as its first transgender student. Hundreds of thousands of...

Apr 10, 2017, 2:57 PM

The festival of freedom and responsibility

A Jewish state that copycats other nations is pointless; rather, Zionism must push for ethics and a sense of purpose

Apr 9, 2017, 2:53 PM

The wicked son revisited

His own child’s black mood suggested the Haggadah’s example is one who has turned destructive, not villainous

Apr 8, 2017, 4:29 AM

Pesach and The Stories We Tell About Ourselves

“Tell me about yourself.” It’s the kind of theoretically nonchalant conversation starter you get from the stranger seated next to you at your neighbours’ kid’s Bat Mitzvah. “Tell me about yourself.” It should be a simple request. But where do you begin?...

Apr 7, 2017, 10:58 AM

Remembering the Exodus Every Day: A Pre-Pesach Reflection

One of the most puzzling passages in the Haggadah is the statement of Rabbi Elazar ben Azariah, which is taken from the Mishna in Berakhot (1:5). Nestled between the story of the Seder attended long ago in Bnai Brak by five...

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