Yom Kippur in Tel Aviv

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Oct 13, 2024, 4:38 PM

Windows of Light

Kibbutz Be'eri Orange Tree (Marc Kornblatt)

Shortly before the one-year anniversary of the October 7 invasion by Hamas, a congenial family man I knew back in the US, before I moved to Israel, wrote on his Facebook page: “F#%! these Nazis. F#%! Israel and f#%! their...

Dec 5, 2023, 12:22 AM

What does unity mean? Thoughts on tomorrow’s Israel

A woman argues with Rosh Yehudi activists at a mass street prayer for Yom Kippur on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)

Before the war we all had our righteous cause. And we were a mess, with hatred threatening to consume us once again

Chana Yehudis Zahav

Nov 8, 2023, 10:38 PM

We are stronger together, let's unify our nation. taken by chana yehudis zahav in tel aviv 2017

Wars are fought with words. People strike each other down and belittle the other until they are nothing with words. Lies are believed when they are spoken with words. Truth can be spoken with words but seldom is as truth requires forethought and words...

Oct 15, 2023, 4:20 PM

Jewish Unity & Divine Protection

Usually I send out messages that are warm and fuzzy. This message will be different. In Judaism, we are taught that if we have an external problem, we are to search for an internal solution. The rabbis teach (in Medrash Tanchuma,...

Oct 12, 2023, 6:09 AM

From Pakistan to Palestine, extremism has one face

On the 10th of October 2023 Daniel Pearl would have turned 60. For those that don’t remember his name, he was a brilliant reporter for the Washington Post who was lured to Karachi where he was kidnapped by Pakistani...

Stephanie Z. Bonder

Oct 12, 2023, 12:52 AM

Sinat Hinam on Kol Nidre

Tribe Tel Aviv prayer before the protesters arrived. Shanna Fuld (far left) Rabbi Jonathan Feldman (middle)

Sinat Chinam – Baseless Hatred on Yom Kippur (This post was written before the war started. More to come on that.) Now that we are concluding the Tishrei Holidays, I have a great deal to digest. As a Jewish educator and...

Oct 10, 2023, 9:49 AM

Time And Place For Everything

Original artwork by @dordoreendesign

There is a time to call attention to the fact that brutal bungling from incompetent ideologues birthed this catastrophe, but that time is not now. There is a time to unbutton the cloak of the “occupation” and pinpoint the...

Oct 8, 2023, 8:36 AM

Saturday night, Motzei Shabbat and Chag. Friday, yesterday, we were at each other’s throats. Article after article warning us of the pending fall of the Third Temple. That we are destined to our very own two state nightmare, a theocratic...

Oct 6, 2023, 1:04 PM

Civility, Yes. Civil War, No!

I started writing this piece right after Yom Kippur. The subject is so painful to me that it has taken me almost two weeks to complete it. My heart is heavy and my mind is still in turmoil. Nevertheless,...

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

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