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There was a point during the argument when the crowd seemed to clam up. The panelists were so passionate that it made everyone uncomfortable. As...
A couple of weeks ago, I had to do the seemingly unthinkable: take the popular video game Fortnite away from my 9-year-old son, Alexander. Like...
Most of us never have to deal with anti-Zionist activists protesting outside our homes or harassing us at our jobs. We can make a conscious...
The Talmud records yet another debate between House Hillel and House Shamai: How do we count the days of Hanukkah? Is it a countdown? Or...
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On November 28, 2018, Marc Lamont Hill, a well-known anti-Israel activist, frequent CNN commentator and Temple University professor, who previously crowd-funded to help a terrorist...
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I have been deeply concerned about climate change since the 1980s. I have a vivid memory of sitting in the teacher’s lounge in the school...
Once again, it’s time to talk about Israel’s next elections. Earlier this week, two events made early elections — possibly in May — much more...
Don’t let Sruli and Mendy Portnoy, the eponymous duo behind Jerusalem-based band PORTNOY, fool you with their boy-band good looks and feel-good melodies. Acerbic lyrics...
Recent Congressional dealmaking may signal that a move to the center — a strengthening of bipartisanship — is gaining momentum. Four days before the start...
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One verse, five voices. Edited by Salvador Litvak, Accidental Talmudist Pharaoh said to Joseph, “I have dreamed a dream, and there is no interpreter for it.”...
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I’ve always thought that if more men understood how much women love to eat, every cooking class in the world would have a waiting list....
Moishe House, a program for Jewish young adults that has been growing steadily throughout the United States and internationally since its inception nearly 13 years...
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As I entered the Beverly Hills home of Rachel Emquies Sheff and her husband, Neil Sheff, on a recent Sunday morning, the warm welcome of...
The sixth annual Red Star Ball held by American Friends of Magen David Adom (AFMDA) honored Magen David Adom’s paramedic heroes along with Steven Mizel, who...
A senior living residence with its quota of kvetching, aching and wheelchair-bound septuagenarians and octogenarians, is generally not the setting for an offbeat romantic film....
Bela Fleck, the banjo virtuoso, continues to take the instrument most closely identified with country and bluegrass into musical realms never before explored. And the...
Fire Coverage Thank you for your coverage of the recent fires in Northern and Southern California. I am struck by how good we humans are at...
Jack Miles is a man of many accomplishments; he’s probably best known as “God’s biographer.” Miles, a former Jesuit priest, is the recipient of the...
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