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In Bnei Brak I founded the shtetl-state
By
Eliyahu Berkovits
In the crucial effort to increase ultra-Orthodox employment, why improve skill levels when you can simply lower the hiring standards?
Yitzhak Klein
The left needs to remember – Israel’s right was voted in
The deep divides of Israeli society are here to stay, so unless we want an absurd seesaw each election, we need to accept each other with genuine pluralism
Josh Levin
Two cheers for assimilation this Hanukkah
The holiday makes things simple, but if I’d been alive at the time, would I really have observed Jewish ritual and belief or would I have adopted Greek culture?
Eugene Kontorovich
3 myths behind the fight against changing the ‘Law of Return’
Letting in anyone with at least one Jewish grandparent no longer makes sense – and to say Israel may not amend this law is to say it cannot control its borders
‘I’ll make a man out of you’
By
Daniella Coen
Female IDF combat soldiers don’t need to hide like Disney’s Mulan did to show they’re as good as the men, but they’ll do better yet when the army reshapes itself for women
Yitz Greenberg
Where will the learned Orthodox women pray?
Women can become exceptional scholars of rabbinic literature, but they remain second-class citizens in most Orthodox synagogues. The architecture needs to catch up
Avi Dabush
We’ll have to define our own Jewish and Zionist identity
Right-wing Jewish supremacists must not be allowed to distort Torah teachings and crush foundations for long-term prosperity in this Land we hold dear
Jonathan A. Greenblatt
In fighting antisemitism, Jews can be our own worst enemies
We should recognize that self-defense starts with self-love and self-knowledge – and Jewish literacy is essential to our long-term survival
Imagine there’s no Hanukkah
By
James R. Russell
If the Maccabees had lost to the pagans, the glorious developments in history that we barely realize are rooted in monotheism would never have come to be
Top Ops
David Stav
Did the Maccabees deserve their brutal end?
The Hanukkah story’s heroes tried to use political force to impose ’spiritual’ Jewish standards. That was doomed to fail then just as it is today
Audrey Levitin
The light of Hanukkah in American democracy
It has been disorienting to adjust to the reality that being Jewish in the US increasingly feels dangerous
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