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Avi Rockoff

Avi Rockoff

Avi Rockoff
July 5, 2018, 12:52 pm
Avi Rockoff
I can see their faces
For American Jews to grasp what’s at stake for Israelis, they have to be able to picture those at risk of harm
Avi Rockoff
January 18, 2018, 1:44 pm
Avi Rockoff
But Trump is good for the Jews!
Orthodox Jews support the US president despite his flouting all the values they want to instill in their children
Avi Rockoff
May 23, 2016, 3:02 pm
Avi Rockoff
I like Hillary!
Those in the Orthodox camp are far too ready to demonize the Democrats, no matter how much they hate Obamacare
Avi Rockoff
April 4, 2016, 3:24 pm
Avi Rockoff
My Muslim comrade in kashrut
On that moment when an Orthodox Jew meets somebody who checks the ingredients to be sure there’s no pork
October 31, 2015, 2:52 pm
From Palestine
What does it mean for a citizen of one country to say that he comes from another?
Avi Rockoff
September 5, 2015, 10:02 am
Avi Rockoff
That’s funny, you don’t look…
An interfaith encounter with a Turkish Muslim clergyman
Avi Rockoff
April 14, 2014, 9:33 am
Avi Rockoff
Future memory
A contemplation on the different ways of forgetting and what they mean for a nation’s survival
Avi Rockoff
February 5, 2013, 11:58 am
Avi Rockoff
How do you want to be remembered?
I submitted to an interview about my life with 92-year-old Mel. Maybe I just wanted to indulge a guilty pleasure that wouldn’t get me arrested
Avi Rockoff
September 23, 2012, 9:01 pm
Avi Rockoff
Billy’s toe: A holiday memory
Sharing memories is tricky, since conveying them always shears away their original context. Hyman, too, had a recollection that circumstances let him share, though the impression it left may not have been quite what he had in mind
Avi Rockoff
August 19, 2012, 1:06 pm
Avi Rockoff
A Jew, a non-Jewish woman and a priest walk into a church
I have a perverse hobby, which is to find and catalogue those whose ancestors did not leave the Jewish fold for a ticket to European society or to conduct the Vienna Opera — they just up and left
Avi Rockoff
June 7, 2012, 2:58 pm
Avi Rockoff
The Bible tells me so
When I first married, I welcomed Jehovah’s Witness emissaries in when they came to our apartment door. Eventually my wife ordered me not to let them in any more. My original namesake, Abraham, had to listen to his wife too. Genesis says so
Avi Rockoff
April 10, 2012, 9:52 am
Avi Rockoff
Hebrew deafness: Were you talking to me?
At the theater, I hand the cashier my credit card. He stares at his keyboard and mumbles something. Then he looks up. He wants a response. ‘Sliha?’ I mutter
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