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It has been almost five months since my return from a trip to Berlin and Poland, and I still have difficulty speaking about it. While I have the vocabulary to describe what I saw, there...
Read moreIsraeli Education Minister Rafi Peretz, an Orthodox rabbi and head of the right-wing Habayit Hayehudi (Jewish Home) Party, indicated this week – for the second time since being appointed last June to the interim post...
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With over 70 percent of non-Orthodox Jews intermarrying in America, there’s been a sense that Jews were welcome in the mainstream – they could live where they wanted, enter professions and corporations that previously excluded...
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After each anti-Semitic attack, Jews seem to get weaker and more vulnerable. One reason is that instead of taking real action, we prefer to complain and release cliché-ridden statements expressing our “outrage.” If you have...
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It is now, unofficially, the season for hunting Chassidim. Since Dec. 8, there have been 13 incidents of violence committed against Chassidic Jews – whether they live in Williamsburg, Borough Park, Crown Heights, Jersey City...
Read moreLike most newspapers, The Jewish Journal has silent words on paper. Or, in these modern times, words on a screen. That was not true of The Journal, it had a voice – a cordial voice...
Read moreAs an alumnus of UMass Amherst, (1971) and an active participant in the Hillel program that started the first kosher kitchen on campus, I am dismayed to hear of the way Mae Lou Zaleski perceives...
Read moreAs a child growing up in Chelsea, one of my fondest memories was that of singing in the Glee Club at the Carter School under the direction of Melvin Toltz. Every year he would put...
Read moreIn this season of Chanukah, celebrating the miracle of light, and one day’s worth of oil lasting eight days, I want to send this Divine Light to all Jews and equally, to all people and...
Read moreI could criticize almost every sentence in Ron Fox’s letter, “The two-state solution debate is irrelevant,” but I’ll confine myself to two of his many misguided assertions. Fox asserts that it is not Israel but...
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