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05 May

2014 May/June, Israel, Jewish World

Opinion // Bans, Blacklists and Flyers, Oh My!

Letty Cottin Pogrebin As usual, the thought police are trying to silence diversity of opinion about Israel. I’m not usually prone to hysteria or hyperbole, but lately...

05 May

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The Promise of the Promised Land

May 6, 2014
By Sala Levin
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by Sarah Kreimer The taxi drove off, and I wondered if we had come to the right place. Footsteps crunching on gravel, we walked across an...

05 May

2014 May/June, Ask the Rabbis

Ask the Rabbis // Addiction

July 25, 2019
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INDEPENDENT: Addiction is highlighted in the Torah’s account of the Revelation at Mount Sinai, where the One Who Spoke and the World Came into Being instructed us not to get so caught up in our subjective assumptions about God that we would carve out and worship an image reflecting those assumptions.

05 May

2014 May/June, Big Questions

Can Religious Pluralism and an Official Rabbinate Coexist in Israel?

April 4, 2023
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Moment asks a wide range of scholars, activists and religious leaders to suggest if and how religious pluralism and the chief rabbinate can coexist

02 May

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Meaning and the Two-State Solution

May 6, 2014
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by Susan Pashman As I set out to see for myself what was happening on Israel’s West Bank, I was also hungrily devouring Ari Shavit’s magnificent...

30 Apr

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Week in Review: Knishes, Dates and Racist Rants

May 6, 2014
By Rachel Gross
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This week in Jewish news, from fun to awful. Turns out knishes are stuffed—with history. The humble origins of the potato pie are elevated to Joycean...

24 Apr

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“My Promised Land” Revisited

October 12, 2021
By Sala Levin
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by Melvin Dow Considering the numerous reviews written from divergent viewpoints, one might reasonably conclude that everything worth saying about Ari Shavit’s book, My Promised Land,...

23 Apr

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Anti-Semitism: A Corrupting Influence

April 24, 2014
By Rachel Gross
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In our March/April issue, we examine the roots and legacy of that ancient hatred, anti-Semitism. Here we highlight one response, from David Nirenberg, a historian...

09 Apr

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York and the Jews

April 24, 2014
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by Alberta Weinberg York is described in travel guides as a beautiful medieval city with Roman walls and a magnificent cathedral. My husband, Ken, and I...

08 Apr

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Redeeming Haim Hazaz

April 30, 2014
By Sala Levin
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by Darren Pinsker When the Israeli writer Haim Hazaz died in 1973, his reputation was so lofty in the world of modern Hebrew letters that one...

03 Apr

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Cycling Through Jewish Europe

April 17, 2014
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by Michael Lyon On an overcast late summer day, we were cycling north of Prague along the Elbe River, on the way to Hamburg, when we...

01 Apr

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Anti-Semitism: Misdiagnosed in America?

April 14, 2014
By Sala Levin
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In our March/April issue, we explore the thorny and ever-present issue of anti-Semitism: Where does it come from? Why does it persist? Here we highlight...