Batsheva Neuer
By Batsheva Neuer
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Life The Holocaust Can’t Be The Essential Component Of Jewish Identity — Here’s Why
Growing up as a millennial in Montreal, I couldn’t escape the numbers. The cashier at the bakery had one. Our synagogue’s “candy-man” had one. Even my second grade Hebrew teacher had one. Today, they are harder to find. The numbers loomed over our parents like a dark cloud — a relentless reminder of the devastation…
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Life A New Exchange Program For Israeli Scientists — And Orthodox Rabbis
In a mid-sized study hall in Jerusalem, rows of men in white shirts and black pants are swaying to the sing-song of Talmudic verses. Some sit, hunched over their ancient texts; others stand, resting their books on a wooden lectern, or shtender, in Yiddish. Forty-five minutes away from the beit midrash, Israel’s leading scientists are…
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Life Return of the Shtiebel: Why Old-School Synagogues Are Making A Comeback
Ridnik. Vorhand. Koshnitz. These names might sound like remote provinces in Ukraine, but they are also the names of Orthodox micro-congregations bustling here on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. They’re referred to as shtieblach (Yiddish for “little houses”), and although many have died out with their congregants, some are making a comeback on the Upper West…
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Israel News Meet The Indefatigable Religious Israeli Doctor Defying Stereotypes
Not many doctors can say they have treated terrorists and a brother who was seriously wounded by one. Dr. Yitz Glick is one of them. It wasn’t easing pinning Glick – who travels monthly between the US and Israel — down for an interview. And when I finally did, his available window was Tisha B’av….
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