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Yishai Friedman

Oct 6, 2023, 12:41 PM

My response to Rabbi Poupko and the Dizengoff minyan critics

Aside from the few disruptors, the initiative was highly productive: many locals joined us to shake our lulavs or engage in dialogue

Jul 26, 2023, 7:57 PM

Media Must Reject Wording Promoting Anti-Jewish Hate

In early July, after a number of unacceptable attacks originating from Jenin, including rocket fire, the Israel Defense Forces conducted a military operation in the West Bank city to combat terrorism. The operation was a resounding success, with bombs...

May 30, 2023, 11:00 PM

Heart of Gold, and bronze, and Light

Lucy Dee, Rena London and Mori Sokal on Yom Yerushalayim in Gan Sacher. (Photo courtesy of author)

Today is exactly seven weeks since the funeral of our friend Lucy. As my daughter pointed out when we were learning as a family on Shavuot night, seven is a special number in Tanach. The first and most important...

Goldie Benarroch

May 25, 2023, 6:03 AM

Dee family: Reporting honestly to achieve peace

Imagine peacefully driving to Tiberias for a holiday with your family when suddenly your car is driven off the road as gunmen shoot at you and your family, killing your mom and two sisters. This happened to the Dee...

Jonathan Muskat

May 4, 2023, 5:21 AM

The Brain Death Controversy in Light of Recent Events

Yesterday, I choked up watching a very moving video that went viral. It was a video of the Dee family meeting the patients whose lives were saved by the organ donations of Lucy Dee, who, along with two of...

Apr 25, 2023, 9:26 PM

Pictures of you

The sirens were not loud enough today. Even when the missing man formation planes flew overhead, it was not as loud as the scream in my heart, the confusion in my head asking why. Why were we here, how...

Shaanan Scherer

Apr 18, 2023, 4:47 AM

Rabbi Leo Dee: A Jewish Response to Terror

Leo and Lucy z'l Dee

Mah nishtana hapesach haze mikol hapsachim? How is this Pesach different from all other Pesachs? This year the maror was more bitter. This year V’hi Sheamda was sung louder. This year, Yom Hazikaron came early. It was a very painful...

Linda Pardes Friedburg

Apr 14, 2023, 2:50 PM

Through our dearest and closest, we will live

We, Am Yisrael, lost four sibling pairs in two months - three to Arab terror, one this week to drowning. And we lose one more pair, the young Priests Nadav and Avihu, this Shabbat in Parshat Shemini - "and a...

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