31
Jul
Ask The Rabbis | Can a Robot Be Jewish?
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Moment
“Would your Jewish robot be like the Jetsons’ Rosie, who’d make perfect Shabbat challah and your aunt’s amazing latkes?”
31
Jul
Book Review | Concrete Boxes: Mizrahi Women on Israel’s Periphery by Pnina Motzafi-Haller
We are waking up to the fact that Mizrachim now make up more than half of all Israeli Jews. And not only do Mizrachim come from a different part of the world, but they also continue to view Zionism, Judaism, religion and gender very differently than do Jews of European descent.
31
Jul
Book Review | Against the Inquisition by Marcos Aguinis
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Dara Horn
Little known in English, Aguinis has been a Latin American literary powerhouse for 50 years, turning out elegant, prize-winning bestsellers that have explored everything from Argentine history to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to the life of Maimonides, all to the praise of his largely non-Jewish audience.
31
Jul
Life Online as a Jew of Color
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Molly Cooke
Nylah Burton, a 23-year-old freelance writer based in Denver, had been discussing Jewish whiteness online since she joined “Jewbook,” a collective of Facebook groups designated to be of Jewish interest.
27
Jul
How Will Pro-Israel Evangelicals Shape U.S. Policy?
In Trump-era Washington, pro-Israel and Jewish conferences can be divided into roughly three categories: those on the left who gather to lament, centrist groups that do their best to avoid any mention of the president, and groups on the conservative end of the spectrum for which the Trump presidency is nothing short of a dream come true.
27
Jul
A Haredi Rabbi’s Rumination on Racism
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Avi Shafran
Like many of his generation, Mr. Paskow harbored some deep, overt racial prejudices against what he referred to as shvartzes, Yiddish for “blacks.” It was 1969, and race riots in a number of cities provided the elderly shulgoer with ample fodder for his racial railings.
24
Jul
What Role Do Jewish Democrats Have in the Coming Election?
This should have been a no-brainer. Jews and Democrats are almost synonymous terms in American politics. With 7 in 10 Jews voting for a Democratic...
17
Jul
Inside the Iron Dome
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Dan Raviv
Chanoch Levin spearheaded the development of Israel’s famed defensive shield against short-range rockets. For the first time, he shares some of the previously undisclosed details of how a concept more likely to be found in a science fiction thriller became a reality.
13
Jul
Interview | Yuval Shany, First Israeli to Chair UN Human Rights Committee
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Anis Modi
For the first time, an Israeli will chair the United Nations Human Rights Committee.
12
Jul
The Top 5 Books
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We asked experts and aficionados to recommend their top five books on timely and intriguing subjects—from trends in American Judaism to Jewish romance.
12
Jul
Verdict on Roman Artichokes? Tasty!
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Dina Gold
In Rome, the future of the Jewish community’s signature dish—the carciofo alla giudia (Jewish-style artichoke)—was threatened by a decree from the Israeli rabbinate’s head of imports.
11
Jul
Jewish Groups Take on Family Separation
“You take a child away from their parents, from their home, from everything they know, and they are never the same.”