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You say matzah — and matzo and matzuh and matzee and more
Readers respond to our editor-in-chief’s column about a Passover copy-editing conundrum
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This Hebrew Month, Challenge Yourself To Look Inward
None of us actually knows when the middle of our lives will be. A midpoint can be measured after a life ends, but while one is still living, there’s no knowing. I had two strokes in my early thirties. I didn’t think I was going to die imminently — but I could have. And that…
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‘Sick Chicks’ Is Empowering Young Women With Disabilities, One Story At A Time
Society teaches young woman to sit still, look pretty, and wait for Prince Charming, yet their beauty is determined by the standards society sets. What happens when you can’t sit still? What if you’d prefer to be your own hero? I started the international community Sick Chicks in 2015, after years of writing an anonymous…
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A Zioness Battle For The Soul Of The Left
On August 12, Alt-Right bigots, Klansmen, and neo-Nazis marched the streets of Charlottesville, Virginia to “end Jewish influence in America,” simultaneously threatening other minority groups in a horrifying display of perverse and profound evil. The anti-Semitism was unmistakable. On the same day, nearly 800 miles away, on a sunny afternoon in Chicago, a group of…
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10 Ways Jewish Students Can Join The Resistance
Watching the events of these past weeks unfold, we were confronted with a feeling of desperation. Nazis rioted in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting anti-Semitic, anti-immigrant, and anti-Black slogans, threatening a synagogue. The president of the United States sided with racism and violence, drawing praise from the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacists. The New England…
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Alt-Right Jew: Charlottesville Was A Wake-Up Call
Even after Charlottesville, I still don’t know what to think of Richard Spencer. It’s Saturday night and I’m watching him compare his movement to Zionism on Israeli TV. He’s wearing a nice shirt and I’m not surprised; the man has fine taste in clothing, especially in vests. I’d challenge anyone to name a public figure…
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Worried About Anti-Semitism? Practice The Tolerance You Preach.
I woke up last Saturday morning to images of Charlottesville — to accounts of the white supremacist chants “blood and soil” and “Jews will not replace us.” I saw pictures of angry white men with swastikas giving the Nazi salute, their faces twisted in rage. As a white Jewish woman, I have for years approached…
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Sorry, Richard Spencer: Comparing Zionism to White Nationalism Is A Rotten Comparison
Richard Spencer, the prominent “alt-right” white supremacist, recently described himself to an Israeli TV interviewer as “a white Zionist.” That claim, coming from the leader of such a viciously antisemitic movement, is ironic and ridiculous. But if Spencer’s hope was to win sympathy from Zionists, his claim of an analogy between Zionism and white nationalism…
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The Case For Nonviolent Resistance: It’s Right And It Works
President Donald Trump, in his press conference reversing his statement from his previous press conference which reversed his statement from his previous press conference, equated violence on the left with violence on the right. In essence he was saying that those who went to Charlottesville because of justifiable fear that neo-Nazis, White Nationalists, White Supremacists,…
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Orthodox Rabbis Speak Out Against Charlottesville Riots
Statement of Orthodox Rabbis and Clergy on Charlottesville Demonstration and its Aftermath The central teaching of the Bible is that every human being is created in the image of God. This means that every individual and group is unique and to be treasured — but is, no less, equal and of infinite worth. Equality and…
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Fellow Zionists: The March For Racial Justice Apologized— Now ‘Show The Hell Up’
The March for Racial Justice is planning on making up for its Yom Kippur flop by holding a sister march on October 1, the day after the Jewish holiday, in various cities around the country. Fellow Zionists, mark your calendars. Show. The. Hell. Up. You may think this isn’t about you — but you’re wrong….
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12 Great Picture Books For Celebrating The Solar Eclipse As A Family
The moon is one of the earliest points of imagination and metaphor we offer young children. We tuck our children in, bid goodnight to the moon, and tell them that we love them to the moon and back; it becomes a first symbol of both constancy and wonder. The realization that the moon is visible…
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