Aaron Freedman
By Aaron Freedman
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Opinion Why Are Jewish Millennials Flocking To Socialism? Passover Has The Answer
Every year at the Passover seder, I make a point of recounting a midrash I once read about the Haggadah’s Four Children casting each child as a different generation of American Jewry. The wise child is the pious immigrant. The wicked child is the assimilated rebel who refuses their parents’ foreign language and customs. The…
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Opinion Jewish Leaders Denounce ‘Dual Loyalties’ – While Demanding Fealty To Israel From Jews
Every time a Jewish leader grandstands against the anti-Semitic canard of “dual loyalty,” I groan. Not because this trope is not real. For all of Jewish history, anti-Semites have justified persecution by claiming Jews are more loyal to each other than their home countries. And recent anti-Semitic attacks, like the one at the Tree of…
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News The Simpsons: A Jewish Link
While attending a Jewish day school, Noah Gradofsky, a young fan of the long-running cartoon series “The Simpsons,” had a passing idea to turn an episode into a mock page of Talmud. Years later, in rabbinical school, Gradofsky first put the idea on paper or, more accurately, on a Web site. The Simpsons Talmud, based…
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