16
Nov
Talk of the Table | The Great Topping Debate
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Dan Freedman
Hanukkah’s great culinary divide runs right across my brother Paul Freedman’s dining room table in suburban Pelham, New York.
13
Nov
Max Brooks Invites You to Moment’s 45th Anniversary Gala – Sunday, November 22
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Moment
On November 22 at 7 p.m. EST, Moment will celebrate its 45 years of independent journalism. Purchase your ticket today!
12
Nov
Beshert | A Tale of Two Converts
“When he sings Eyshet Chayil before kiddush, he reaches across the table for my hand. Not one convert, but two, we’re partners on the journey in the fullest sense of the word; soulmates, beshert.”
12
Nov
Ask the Rabbis | Do Jews Believe in Miracles?
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“Jews have traditionally perceived everything as miraculous.”
11
Nov
Dispatch from Crown Heights: Two Universes, One Neighborhood
As Devorah Halberstam, a prominent local activist, drives through Brooklyn’s Crown Heights neighborhood in her white 2017 Acura, she grows increasingly animated.
11
Nov
What Ten American Jews Learned About the United States Over the Past Year
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A few of our JPVP voters share their reflections on the state of America today.
11
Nov
Opinion | Crossing the Covid Chasm
Aron Wieder, a Satmar Hasid active in New York politics, finds himself in a complicated position.
11
Nov
From the Deputy Editor | Why We Must Have a Jewish Fourth Estate
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Sarah Breger
One perk of working at a Jewish magazine is getting Jewish publications from all over the world in the office mail.
11
Nov
Hawkeye Pierce: An Appreciation
B.F. Pierce is a brilliantly developed, multifaceted character, perhaps best analyzed by M.A.S.H.’s Army psychiatrist, the Jewish Dr. Sydney Friedman (played by Alan Arbus). The doctor’s observation that “while anger turned inward becomes depression, anger turned sideways is Hawkeye Pierce.”
10
Nov
Opinion | Debating the Jewish Canon
One day last spring, I got a call from a woman I didn’t know, asking if I objected—as she did—to a work of mine being included in The New Jewish Canon: Ideas and Debates 1980-2015 along with works by men identified as notable abusers by the #MeToo movement.
10
Nov
Opinion | Covid Is Ripping Israel Apart
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Naomi Ragen
When COVID-19 reached Israel last March, I was not unduly worried.
10
Nov
Opinion | Indifference Is Complicity
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Irwin Cotler
In writing about the unspeakable mass atrocities targeting the Uighurs and other Turkic Muslims in the Xinjiang region of China, I’m reminded of the words of Elie Wiesel, Nobel Peace Prize laureate and conscience of humanity, that “silence in the face of evil is complicity with evil itself”—and that, as he would remind us again and again, “Indifference always means coming down on the side of the victimizer, never on the side of the victim.”