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Unapologetic dispatches on Zionism, Jewish identity, antisemitism, and the war over truth. From pride parades to protest lines, from the Kotel to college campuses, this is where that Jew speaks up. Sharp takes, historical context, uncomfortable questions.
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The Sermon I Got Wrong (opens the original)
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Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch stood at his bimah on Manhattan’s Upper West Side this Yom Kippur, before a crowd of about fifteen hundred, and said something rabbis do not usually say out loud. Unhinged and obsessive loathing of Israel, he warned in his prepared remarks, is corrupting American values, and if it spreads unchecked, Jews will not be the only ones who pay for it. America will too. His congregants had been asking him for months whether they should leave the city, or the country. Forty years in
Hope Is Not a Forecast (opens the original)
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The announcement came from the front of a modern Orthodox shul in Jerusalem during the High Holidays of 5761. If anyone had left a television or a radio on at home, and heard anything concerning the safety of the community, please let the gabbai know. Nobody flinched. A room full of people who would not touch a light switch on a holy day had just been asked to keep half an ear on the news, and the request sounded reasonable, which was the frightening part. I was twenty-five, barely a month into
The High Holiday Sermon Your Rabbi Is Afraid to Give (opens the original)
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When Maimonides codified the laws of repentance, he began with the words themselves. A Jew who returns from sin is obligated to say what the sin was. The formula in the first law of Hilchot Teshuvah contains a placeholder the penitent must fill: asiti kach v’kach. I did such and such. The tradition does not accept the confession that gestures. On Yom Kippur you will stand through the Al Chet beating your chest, and you will notice, if you pay attention, that it is a list. Specific sins, one at a
The Five Names the Letter Doesn’t Mention (opens the original)
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On November 5, Penguin releases a memoir called *Unbroken: In Pursuit of Freedom for Palestine*, with a foreword written by Fadwa Barghouti about the husband she has spent two decades campaigning to free. Twenty-three days later, Palestinians vote in the first Palestinian Legislative Council elections in twenty years, and the same husband, serving five consecutive life sentences plus forty years in an Israeli prison, already topped the internal vote for Fatah’s own leadership from inside his cel
What We Leave at the Edge of the Nest (opens the original)
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I wrote this a year ago, the week we moved our younger daughter into her dorm and the house went quiet for good. Since then, our older daughter has graduated, moved back home, and started a job we’re incredibly proud of, so our nest isn’t empty at the moment. But the ache of that first real goodbye hasn’t faded, it’s just settled into something I trust more now. As students head back to school this month, and as some of you are facing an empty house for the first time, I wanted to bring this bac
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