‘Hineini’: A declaration of presence and accountability
By WILLIAM DAROFF (JNS) As our communities gather in synagogues for this Rosh Hashanah, we are...
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Category: Opinion
Thinking the unthinkable? The unmaking of the American Jewish experience
By STEVEN WINDMUELLER (JNS) American democracy is in trouble. Democratic governments here and...
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Judicial reform: Israel needs national healing!
By DAVID SUISSA The noise from Israel since the coalition announced its judicial overhaul in...
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Coming to terms with my blue funk; Healing in Colorado
By MARILYN SHAPIRO Who would ever have thought that this Upstate New York girl who had climbed...
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We salute WWII vet in Lake George
By STUART GANG I was in the town of Lake George Aug. 27 and noticed an older man in a wheelchair...
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Rabbi charged with seducing women using secular identity on dating sites
The Israel Police recently released the name and photograph of Rabbi Yosef Paryzer, who took to...
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Attorney seeks six months notice before Chasidic funerals in Airmont, N. Y.
(JNS) Jewish law explicitly prohibits consulting soothsayers and fortune tellers. But that’s just...
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Israeli Settlements Are Not Illegal
A response to Nathaniel Berman By EUGENE KONTOROVICH (via Tablet) Appeals to scientific or expert...
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Of three moose and a basketball hoop
By MARILYN SHAPIRO As we have done every year since our granddaughter, affectionately nicknamed...
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‘Wall Street Journal’ flouts ethics with Israel child killer charge
By ANDREA LEVIN Killing children is terrible, as everyone knows. It follows that leveling false...
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13 years after saving infant, medics join ‘miracle’ bar mitzvah
(JNS) A team of medics were invited to the recent bar mitzvah celebration of Shmuel Kovetzik in...
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Are you noting Tisha B’Av this year?
By GIL TROY (August 2022 / Jewish Journal JNS) It’s become an annual modern ritual. Every summer,...
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