In evangelical Christianity, you’re taught from the beginning that you are inherently sinful and, essentially, evil, and it ...
Bring the piyutim. Bring the stories of Baghdad or Aleppo or Casablanca or Tunis or Sana’a. And please, for the love of God, ...
Why Supporting a Movement Has Never Meant Supporting Everything Within It. One of the easiest ways to misunderstand Black-Jewish relations is to compare the Civil Rights Movement ...
Abu Shehadeh crossed a red line when he broke a basic law that explicitly prohibits an Israeli citizen from expressing support for armed struggle against Israel, negating its existence as a Jewish and ...
In the middle of the week, Trump met with officials from across the Middle East on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly.
Israel does not ease you into the new year. It hands you an apple, asks why you have left dress shopping until the last ...
The Kanaani cats and I, as their custodian, have been nominated for recognition at Brooklyn Borough Hall in connection with ...
Even when the walls shake, in times of personal and national crisis, internal division, and real exposure, we seek comfort in ...
The Torah tells us why we sit in the sukkah: l’maan yeidu doroteichem, so that every generation will know that God made us dwell in sukkot when we left Egypt ( Leviticus 23:43 ). Sukkot is a mitzvah ...
We have to stick together. Do you see what is happening all around you? There are some Jews that need convincing that we have to take care of ourselves and each other. The reality is that everybody ...
The Court’s decision will not resolve the enormous questions facing Israel: the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the future of ...
This is the first half of a short story from my collection of stories featuring the Jews of Astoria, NY. Comment if you’d ...