Efforts to engage American Jews in the protests have been occurring ever since Israelis began to take to the streets in Israel in January. Now, for the first time, the collaboration seems real.
Sarah Breger
This year the Israeli embassy’s official Independence Day event was, in a word, eventful.
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Join historian Craig Nelson, author of the new book “V is for Victory: Franklin Roosevelt’s American Revolution and the Triumph of World War II,” for a conversation about how FDR’s leadership transformed the United States and helped defeat the Nazis.
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“And the Bride Closed the Door” is a broad comedy about a bride who refuses to go forward with her wedding ceremony, sowing havoc. The book captures a segment of Mizrahi society not often featured in Israeli fiction.
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Rabbi Michael Strassfeld, talks about his new book, Judaism Disrupted: A Spiritual Manifesto for the 21st Century, which offers new insights on how Judaism can, will and must continue to change and adapt as a toolkit to help people bring meaning to every aspect of their lives.
Neo-Nazis have a real problem with drag queens. Is it misplaced? Historical? Antisemitic? What does the larger “anti-grooming” crowd make of it?
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If ice cream is actually good for you, that’s just the latest of a heap of reasons to eat dairy on the upcoming Shavuot holiday.
In Kantika, Rebecca—who is both a dressmaker and a beauty—is interested in manipulating surfaces and self-fashioning.
Israeli’s judicial system differs from the U.S.’s in more than just details. Who’s protesting what, who has the upper hand, and what, exactly, is on the table?
All the years that I was religious, I couldn’t find the good in the forced separation around menstruation. It made me feel like my very essence, the soft and miraculous parts of my womanhood, was distasteful, to be kept at a distance.
