Jewish Word | Emet
Suppose you’ve made a golem, a man-shaped figure of clay, and you want to bring it to life.
Debate | Should Jews Support Leaders Who Lie? | No
The simple answer would be no. It depends partly on how you define lies.
Debate | Should Jews Support Leaders Who Lie? | Yes
Yitzhak Shamir once said that for the safety and security of the State of Israel, one can lie.
Italian Jews: Rome, the Renaissance and Beyond
A new museum in the medieval city of Ferrara illuminates more than two millennia of history. But it has yet to directly grapple with the Holocaust.
Israeli Documentary ‘Afterward’ Is a Guiding Light in a World of Trauma
The remarkable new documentary Afterward is a dissection of nothing less than the last century’s collective trauma of the Jewish people, and a sincere attempt to find its echo in the trauma of Israel’s sworn enemies.
Beshert | Really Glad We Didn’t Skip That Party
That we met on February 22, my Grandma Clara’s birthday, my parents’ wedding day and my Bar Mitzvah day on my mom’s and dad’s 22nd anniversary, must be pure coincidence, right? We chose our wedding day, June 10th, randomly; it turned out to be my grandparents’ wedding day nearly 70 years earlier. Another coincidence… unless one accepts that beshert operates in strange and mysterious ways.
Harvey “Svi” Shapiro (NC): ‘We Will Need a Return to a Belief in Truth and Facts’
I am struggling in my preference between my wish for a truly progressive Democratic candidate
Are We All Hasidim?
In a world in which any Jew is a potential target of anti-Semitism, it is the most visible Jews who are most threatened. Jews with black hats, with tight curls hanging down below their ears and black coats and women wearing modest head coverings, they are the most vulnerable. Jews in synagogues. In Brooklyn, as in Jersey City and Monsey, violence against individuals in their Hasidic communities is almost an everyday event. If someone wants to do harm to a Jew, Hasidic Jews and their communities are and have become easy targets.
Hannah Rosenthal (WI): ‘Most People Believe Trump Is a Crook, Narcissist and Liar’
I am old enough to have now watched three impeachment inquiries and what is on display
Michael Ginsberg (VA): ‘I Don’t See Trump as Different From the Democrats in Their Dishonesty’
I think the irony in all of this is if the Democrats hadn’t spent three years bleating non-stop for impeachment
Miriam Laing (FL): ‘A Certain Degree of Dishonesty Is Inevitable’
A certain degree of dishonesty is inevitable in part because candidates are human beings.
Stuart Baum (MI): ‘The General Election Will Be Won on Turnout’
I think that they probably hurt his chances for re-election because the hearings will likely wear down his less-secure supporters