23
Apr
The Wandering Jews
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Sala Levin
by Kelley Kidd
I spent Passover this year in Washington, DC. It was a far cry from the fall, when I celebrated the High Holy Days...
13
Apr
Thousands of Little Pharaohs: The Plight of the Agunah
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By
Moment
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
In this Passover season, consider the plight of Jewish women whose marriages have ended but whose (former) husbands refuse them a get (bill...
10
Apr
Beating the Passover Doldrums
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By
by Kelley Kidd
It is around this time during Passover, as the seder leftovers begin to dwindle, that I begin to rapidly lose interest in the...
04
Apr
Escape from Freedom?
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By
By Martin Berman-Gorvine
As Passover approaches, I have been reading the psychologist Erich Fromm’s 1941 work, Escape from Freedom. Writing when Nazi Germany was at its...
03
Apr
A Match Made in the O.R.
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By
by Sala Levin
The dating ritual is replete with anxieties: What dress to wear? How long should I wait to call after the date? Is my...
31
Mar
Book Review | In Love with Life—and Himself
By Alan A. Stone
DucClaude Lanzmann is known on this side of the Atlantic as the Frenchman who created the monumental film, Shoah. He tells us that...
31
Mar
The Food of Great Fiction
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By
Here a Roth, there a Stein, everywhere a Kafka—Jews are the people of the book, a group that has long prized its own erudition and...
31
Mar
Ask The Rabbis | Will It Matter to Jews If There Is a Mormon President?
INDEPENDENT
Historically, the religious affiliation of a governmental leader has never been an issue for the Jewish people, as long as the government involved was not...
31
Mar
Jewish Word | The Rabbinic Way of Fiction
By Sala Levin
You may know the story: Abraham, in an effort to convince his father, Terach, that idol worship is wrong, takes a hammer and...
31
Mar
Marshall Breger: U.S. Citizenship: Priceless or Merely Convenient?
By Marshall Breger
In 2011, Sen. Joseph Lieberman suggested that U.S. nationals, “homegrown” or otherwise, be stripped of their citizenship if they are “engaging in or...
31
Mar
David Hazony: Israel Catches a “Flytilla” with (Serious) Satire
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David Hazony
First off, let me be clear that I do not condone Israel’s official use of sarcasm, wit or anything else that could be construed as...
31
Mar
Gershom Gorenberg: An Open Letter to American Rabbis
The incident repeats itself with small variations. A rabbi somewhere in America writes to ask if I’ll come speak to his congregation about Israeli politics...