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Experiencing Israel within the tension of perceptions and politics
If you had asked me two years ago what was the likelihood of me traveling to Israel, I would have said 5 percent, simply because I always like to leave some room for the universe to surprise me.
Five heroes of 2016
In some respects, Election 2016 has not been American Jewry’s finest hour.
Fighting sexual assault: An idea for Mark Zuckerberg
It’s been an ugly year. The recent release of a “hot mic” recording of presidential candidate Donald Trump, in which he bragged about forcing himself on women, was disgusting, although not shocking.
UNESCO and the culture of denial
The resolution by the executive board of UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) last week to remove any reference to a Jewish link to the Temple Mount while condemning Israeli behavior in the Old City of Jerusalem is disturbing on various levels.
‘I got my bearings on a community college campus’
As a youth I was not a model student in public school nor in Hebrew school.
UNESCO vote loco, Hispanic Christians say
Thousands of Christians from around the world are visiting Jerusalem this week tracing the footsteps of Jesus through the cobbled winding streets of the Old City as they do every Sukkot, one of the three Jewish festivals where Jews made the pilgrimage to the Temple centuries ago, but now a UNESCO resolution negates these events ever happened.

My sexual assault, and yours: Every woman’s story
I remember staring at his scotch glass.
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