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Yom Kippur’s Circle Dance

Yom Kippur conjures solemnity and foreboding for many Jews. Ritual fasting, abstinence, penitence, and rehearsing for death evolved as core ...

Look Both Ways Before Crossing!

As we cross from 5774 to 5775, the Akeida (the Binding of Isaac, which is traditionally read on Rosh Hashanah) ...

Meeting My Palestinian Neighbors For the First Time

Nine months ago I opened the front door of my apartment in Alon Shvut and took a 20-minute walk that ...

Aliyah – A Journey to Family, to Community and to Empowering Our Sisters in Israel

If you had told me five years ago that I would be making aliyah in the midst of a war ...

Honest Boundaries Make Good Neighbors

I always forget, in between trips, how stunningly beautiful Israel is. When I return, it is like opening a favorite ...

Removing the Veil of Denial on Anti-Semitism

Growing up, my favorite day was the annual Israel day parade in Philadelphia. It was a celebration of belonging and identity. ...

Beep, Turn the Page.    

When I was growing up, I used to listen to records of GI Joe or Sci Fi stories that came ...

World Traveler Becomes World Musician

  What makes a secular Israeli connect to his Jewish identity, roots and spirituality? What makes secular Jew from Jerusalem ...

A Time to be Silent and a Time to Speak

“There is a time to be silent and a time to speak.” So says the author of Kohelet (Ecclesiastes) in a ...

Time for Christian Voices Against Anti-Semitism

Is anti-Semitism like pornography? Do we know it when we see it? Absurd on the one hand, this analogy helps ...

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