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From Fighting Antisemitism to Rebuilding Jewish Strength
3+ hour, 37+ min ago (756+ words) At a recent "State of the Jewish Community" event at the 92nd Street Y in New York, Bret Stephens offered a bracing assessment: the fight against antisemitism, he argued, has largely failed. Despite enormous investments of money and attention, particularly in…...
The Way Back to the Garden of Eden
3+ hour, 52+ min ago (780+ words) Every temple and sanctuary expresses a perspective on how God and man interact. Leibowitz sees the connection in a more straightforward way, and says the linguistic parallels convey that "it is incumbent on man to imitate his creator'and assume the…...
What I Have is For You - A poem for Parsha Terumah
23+ hour, 4+ min ago (584+ words) Terumah " offering (Exodus 25:127:19) What I have is for you. Everything every penny and every object. The air that surrounds us I have gathered so you could breathe it. What I have is for you. My skin and my words. I…...
Improvise As Did the Covenant Code
1+ day, 18+ min ago (758+ words) He told the actors: "Improvise while I stand in the wings, I'll watch you with my hawk-like eyes and use my scorpion stings if you stray from the script too far, but if your acting's good each one of you…...
Table for Five: Terumah
1+ day, 12+ hour ago (864+ words) One verse, five voices. Edited by Nina Litvak and Salvador Litvak, the Accidental Talmudist And let them make Me a sanctuary that I may dwell among them. Exactly as I show you " the pattern of the Tabernacle and the pattern…...
Sparking the Soul of Sacred Practice
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (544+ words) Wildes" "The Jewish Experience: Discovering the Soul of Jewish Thought and Practice" aims to make the case for why be a committed Jew " why someone should buy in to being a thoughtful and dedicated practitioner of our faith. Drawing on…...
Answering the Wicked Child: Three Generations, One Holocaust Story
1+ day, 23+ hour ago (619+ words) We are losing the propaganda war " but our goal is not propaganda. It is the truth and telling the Jewish story " as truthfully and authentically as possible." " Shachar-Lee Yaakobovitz Tamara Kraus, who spoke of her late father Michael Kraus on…...
From the Yellow Star to the Blue Square: The Schindler’s List Effect and the Crisis of Jewish Sovereignty
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (810+ words) When I was job-hunting some years ago, I interviewed with a national Jewish organization for a position related to Israel education. A senior professional asked me how the emotional connection to Israel he had grown up with could be transmitted…...
“Door to Door”: Bridging Generations Through Jewish Intergenerational Housing
2+ day, 13+ hour ago (319+ words) Lisa Ansell is the Associate Director of the USC Casden Institute and Lecturer of Hebrew Language at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion Los Angeles. His speech was courageous, astute and necessary. It was also wrong. Comics have swagger. When…...
It’s Time to Add Humor to Our Fight Against Jew-Haters
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (1026+ words) Jews are terrible mockers. We leave mocking for the standup comics, especially when they must deal with those pesky hecklers. I consider Jew-haters and Israel-haters the worst kind of hecklers. They spew out stupid stuff to show what good haters…...