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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 526

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Yosef Abramowitz smashes tablets atop Jebel Musa in Egypt, thought by some to be the site of Mount Sinai, to symbolize the world’s lack of action on climate change, November 13, 2022. (Sue Surkes/Times of Israel)
November 13, 2022, 9:53 pm
Activists smash tablets atop ‘Mount Sinai’ to launch faith-based climate push
Saying officials gathered at COP summit need to do more, Sinai Climate Partnership will seek to recruit religious leaders globally to lobby for faster action on climate change
By Sue Surkes
A demonstrator holding a cross protests outside of the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington DC, May 5, 2022. (AP/Jose Luis Magana, File)
May 9, 2022, 8:38 am
Potential overturn of Roe v. Wade divides America’s faithful on abortion
Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg argues draft ruling would outlaw procedure in cases where Judaism permits, and even requires it; national polls show most Americans support abortion access
By DEEPA BHARATH and LUIS ANDRES HENAO
'Hidden Heretics' and author Ayala Fader. (Princeton University Press)
October 19, 2020, 1:59 am
Author: Ultra-Orthodox ‘Hidden Heretics’ believe in science, reject COVID rebels
In new book, Fordham professor Ayala Fader exposes a subset of the insular community few outsiders know about: a group of doubters united through a banned medium — the internet
By Rich Tenorio
Elie Wiesel (left) with student Ariel Burger, author of a book based on Wiesel as an educator (courtesy)
November 22, 2018, 4:05 am
From Elie Wiesel’s classroom, lessons in sainthood and redemption
As the late Holocaust survivor’s teaching assistant, Ariel Burger learned to unpack his own personal life with guidance from Nobel Laureate Wiesel, his mentor of two decades
By Matt Lebovic
Avidan Freedman
July 18, 2018, 1:15 pm
Avidan Freedman
Why not to fast on Tisha B’Av
Well, do you make decisions based on realpolitik, or based on religious value commitments?
Arella Mayer
June 20, 2018, 1:18 pm
Arella Mayer
Lonely man of musical faith
For me, music is like Torah, and they’re both like drinking sea water: the more I drink, the thirstier I get
Bracha Goldstein
March 21, 2018, 3:23 pm
Bracha Goldstein
Prepping for Passover like always
My heart jumps when I spot a long-forgotten pretzel in the corner, though I no longer believe
William Hamilton
January 19, 2018, 5:33 pm
William Hamilton
In Hawaii, false alarm, true humanity
Judaism favors experiences over information, especially those that inspire us to do good (Parshat Bo)
Shoshana Greenwald, director of Collections at the Amud Aish Memorial Museum, in Brooklyn, NY, talks about the 1945 uniform of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp survivor Chaim Schmidt, in the museum's archive room, on January 10, 2018. (AP Photo/ Richard Drew)
January 14, 2018, 11:38 pm
A Holocaust museum in Brooklyn focuses on faith, survival
Amud Aish Memorial Museum explores the ‘spiritual resistance’ of Orthodox Jews who maintained their religion during WWII, even in Nazi death camps
By Karen Matthews
Yitzchak Besser
December 20, 2017, 3:14 pm
Yitzchak Besser
We make our own miracles
The Maccabees sighed, rolled up their sleeves, and got to work as a community — which earned them God’s blessing
Shlomo Riskin
December 1, 2017, 10:20 pm
Shlomo Riskin
The God of our ancestors
Jacob is the biblical model for today’s seekers of the true self before finding the Divine
Shayna Abramson
November 17, 2017, 3:54 pm
Shayna Abramson
I serve God by vacuuming
We need a Judaism that acknowledges the spiritual worth inherent in our daily tasks and routines
Shayna Abramson
November 9, 2017, 2:02 pm
Shayna Abramson
God must think I’m up for the hard stuff
If I believe that God is above statistics, the 98% likelihood of no major surgical complications is small comfort
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
November 1, 2017, 3:41 pm
Nathan Lopes Cardozo
Judaism needs novelty to survive
Many want a teacher to make all matters of faith fall into place, but I am always questioning and seeking
Rabbi Shimon Gershon Rosenberg, or Rav Shagar, as he is better known (Hugh Gordon)
July 10, 2017, 2:05 pm
Israel’s paradoxical man of faith, deconstructed
Rav Shagar, an audacious rabbi and mystic who sought to remake Orthodoxy with the aid of postmodern theory, makes a posthumous bid for the minds of US Jews
By Elie Leshem
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