“If antisemitism is a fact, then what can we do about it?,” Rabbi Diana Fresko writes. “Historically, there are three options: Stay and fight, leave and rebuild, or do nothing.”
- Being JewishTime for a Reassessment Among Jewish Americans
“If antisemitism is a fact, then what can we do about it?,” Rabbi Diana Fresko writes. “Historically, there are three options: Stay and fight, leave
Being JewishIsrael’s Other Secret WeaponIsrael’s secret weapon, Golda Meir once said, is that “we have no place else to go.” But there’s another tool in our arsenal: community.
Israel’s secret weapon, Golda Meir once said, is that “we have no place else to go.” But there’s another tool in our arsenal: community.
Commentary: Friends & Enemies“It is the obligation of each person,” the Talmud tells us of Purim, “to be so drunk as not to be able to tell theFamily Matters: Pure and Prosaicby Miriam KarpI took a deep breath and joined the three women in the refrigerated room. Within lay two meisim, newly deceased and covered with long sheets.Commentary: Guess Who’s Coming to DinnerIn the 1980s, in my late twenties, I was studying in a yeshiva for young women who had no religious education. Newly arrived in Israel,The Missing Heroine of Hanukkaby Judy PetsonkThis Hanukka, for the sake of our daughters, let’s tell the missing piece of the Maccabee story. Let’s celebrate the Queen of the Jews, whoFamily Matters: The Art of Being JewishFrom the age of 4 through high school, Kayleigh Renard attended St. Mary’s Episcopal School in Memphis, Tennessee. A passionate trumpet player, she blew breathCommentary: The Temple’s Columnsby Randy CohenFor the 12 years I wrote “The Ethicist” column for The New York Times Magazine, responding to readers’ moral dilemmas, I took a resolutely secular approachCommentary: One Day, One Hospital, One NationWhen I was little, my mother told me that she would always remember where she was when she heard that President Franklin Roosevelt had died.Beginnings: A Confluence of ForcesIn hindsight, history always looks inevitable. When we look at Hadassah’s 100-year saga, we see the linear version, showing the founding meeting at Temple Emanu-El