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Mostly Cloudy An Open Letter from the Community About Some Not-So-Glatt Updates
Despite the adoration of your cult following, there is a huge segment of the community that is extremely disappointed in you. And while you have used your platform to send out weekly updates for over 6 months …
holidays
Mayim Bialik reflects on her lost bonsai, Yom Kippur, davening, and Jonah
Yom Kippur. The Day of Atonement. After a year unlike any we could have anticipated, I have been waiting for this day, not for atonement so much as a reset. Jewish tradition teaches us that …
peace
Tragedy, triumph of Mizrahi Jews holds real key to MidEast peace
Following the signing of the peace deals between Israel, Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates, American Jewish leaders came forward to discuss how they played a behind-the-scenes role over the …
BDE
Jews eulogize Ginsburg, who spoke often of her heritage
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the first Jewish woman to serve on the US Supreme Court, died on erev Rosh Hashana, Friday Sept. 18, at the age of 87. Ginsburg, a judicial, feminist and Jewish icon who was …
israel
Aliyah is up despite COVID-19 pandemic and bureaucratic woes
Israel is seeing a spike in aliyah, with more people interested in moving to the Jewish state compared to previous years. But with COVID-19 wreaking havoc across the world, it has become …
2020
Meeks on Engel chair list
Rep. Eliot Engel, the Bronx Democrat who chaired the House Foreign Affairs Committee, lost his primary to progressive Jamaal Bowman, and the scramble to replace him on the committee in the next …
food
We welcome 5781, in all its muddled glory!
For 40 years, Rosh Hashana dinner at the Hofman house was the place to be. More than 30 or so family members and friends gathered at our long refectory table, with teens at a card table (the …
food
Tunisian pumpkin jam: Underrated holiday treat
For many Jews, predominantly Sephardim, Rosh Hashana foods extend way beyond apples and honey. Among the numerous simanim (foods that have symbolic …
opinion
Israel was there for us in 5780
The High Holidays is a time of deep spiritual reflection and introspection. This year, obviously, demands it even more. As I take stock of the year that was, several unusual occurrences stand out …
2020
Many Orthodox support Trump. I’m one of them.
I am a registered Democrat who often votes Republican. I was raised in an Orthodox Jewish family in North Jersey. We cried when Richard Nixon defeated Hubert Humphrey in 1968 and exulted when …
health mind and body
St. John’s more than doubles the size of its Emergency Department
It’s a bright new day in the Emergency Department at St. John’s Episcopal Hospital in Far Rockaway. Relegated to history is a former cramped and overcrowded environment …
food
Fresh dates grown from 6th-century BCE seed
Mazal tov to Hannah and Methuselah on their 111 miracle babies! The proud parents are date palms grown from ancient seeds uncovered in archeological excavations in Israel. These dates, recently …
europe
Will new 'mountain Jew' museum draw tourists to remote Azerbaijan?
A 19th-century silver Kiddush cup. Faded Soviet propaganda magazines from the 1920s. Clandestine letters mailed from the front by Jewish soldiers battling Nazis. …
torah
10 ideas for the days leading up to Yom Kippur
As we approach Yom Kippur, here are ten short ideas which might help you focus your davening and ensure you have a meaningful and transformative experience. …
2020
Orthodox rabbi says Trump is '‘neither good for the Jews, nor for Judaism’
Everywhere I turn, I see a country that has neither been made “great again” nor is respected as the protector of human rights and the ingatherer of the downtrodden …
special report
The Soros conspiracy: A backgrounder
wonderful!
‘Avinu Malkeinu’ kid’s message for Holy Days
This week in Torah
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Shabbat Shuvah’s ‘thread of grace’ is always with us
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Hannah and Moshe, 2 singers, 2 different songs
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10 ideas for the days leading up to Yom Kippur
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Our personal tipping points on Yom Kippur
If you would have collected a group of world-renowned military strategists on Yom Kippur in 1973 and asked them, at 4 pm Israel time, for a prognosis on the status of the events unfolding on the …
Kosher Bookworm
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Viewing Orthodoxy and modernity
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‘Return: Daily Inspiration for the Days of Awe’
Erica Brown is one of our community’s foremost American Jewish educators. Through her teachings on Teshuva, she helps people to re-think our sacred texts, thus making them ever more …
Caroline Glick
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The UAE and the Democratic-CAIR partnership
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Red-Green alliance’s war against Israel continues
There are two sides to the war against Israel: the terrorist side and the political side. The missiles the Hamas terrorist regime in Gaza fired at Ashdod and Ashkelon, and the anti-Israel …
Stephen Flatow
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Unpleasant news for Times’ Thomas Friedman
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Yossi Beilin’s still at it, still undermining Israel
It’s been more than a decade since Yossi Beilin retired from Israeli politics, yet he continues to use his stature as a former government official to sometimes take positions that blacken …
Jonathan Tobin
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Intersectionality and ‘Free Palestine’ graffiti attacks on synagogues
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Justified contempt for International Criminal Court
It’s the sort of thing that infuriates those who have been complaining for three-and-a-half years that the Trump administration has no respect for the norms and traditions of international …
Ben Cohen
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Jordan harbors terrorists wanted by France, US
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The Holocaust vs. the rest: A new threat
This line from the rap album “Apocalypse ’91” by Public Enemy served, 30 years ago, as my introduction to a disturbing, perverse accusation that was prevalent in some left-wing …
Politics to Go by Jeff Dunetz
It’s a very big deal — Something only Trump could do
The peace agreement between the UAE and Israel could only have been negotiated with the involvement of President Donald Trump. It could have never happened under the previous …