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Q&A: Naomi Tsur on Women in Jerusalem Politics

October 24, 2013
By Josh Tapper
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Naomi Tsur spent five years as a third-string deputy to Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat, responsible for the ancient city’s urban planning and environmental sustainability files. But...

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Opinion: Jews and Latinos, an Alliance Built on Shared Values

May 27, 2023
By Alan van Capelle
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There is a growing political alliance between Latinos and Jews in America – but it’s not for the reasons some people think. In recent months,...

In the News, Israel, Latest, Opinion, Uncategorized

Opinion: Gilad Shalit’s Negotiator, Gershon Baskin

October 23, 2013
By Gershon Baskin
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On October 18 we mark two years from the remarkable day when the world waited with great anticipation to see Gilad Shalit stride from captivity...

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Rapper’s Delight: A Jewish Lawyer

October 23, 2013
By Thea Johnson
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A friend recently sent me a YouTube video entitled “Rappers Love Jewish Lawyers.” The mash-up consisted of more 25 rap songs that referred to Jewish...

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Q&A: Middle East Scholar Aaron David Miller on Syria and Israel

October 23, 2013
By Nadine Epstein
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The United States, Russia, China, France and Britain reached a UN Security Council resolution this week to compel Syria to relinquish its chemical weapons stock...

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FICTION: Sons of Shuka

October 23, 2013
By Shay Aspril
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Life can be hard, even terrifying for a person who wakes up in the morning and doesn't know where he wants to have his coffee....

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Book Q&A: Writing on Philip Roth

October 24, 2013
By Deborah Kalb
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Claudia Roth Pierpont is the author of the forthcoming Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books, a study of the novelist Philip Roth, who is no relation. A...

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Book Q&A: John Rosengren on Hank Greenberg

October 24, 2013
By Deborah Kalb
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John Rosengren is the author most recently of a biography, Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. His other books include Hammerin' Hank, George Almighty and the Say Hey Kid: The...

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Is There a New Judaism for Gender Identity?

November 25, 2015
By Dinah M. Mendes
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“There is no new thing under the sun,” declared King Solomon in Ecclesiastes, the literary, somewhat world-weary distillate of his lifetime experience. But if the...

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FICTION: Destination Bris

September 7, 2013
By Jay Neugeboren
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“ can cut down the costs . . . particularly in an economy when invitees may not be able to spare the cash for a...

Fiction, Latest

FICTION: A Rosh Hashanah Sermon Throws a Congregation into Turmoil

August 31, 2021
By Ray Silver
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An Excerpt from the novel Congregation Eli Stone steadied the pages of his sermon against the motion of the car and jotted down a few notes...

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Out of the Closet, Into the Fire

September 19, 2013
By Jason Edelman
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This March, history was quietly made in a Saturday morning Orthodox minyan (prayer quorum) at Brandeis University. Avi, a 22-year-old then-college junior from the Boston...

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