Arnold M. Eisen
By Arnold M. Eisen
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Opinion The Best Way To Fight Anti-Semitism? Remember Our Allies In Other Communities
It’s hard to read the news these days without encountering evidence of a significant rise in anti-Semitism. Defaced gravestones in France. A Belgian carnival float featuring puppet caricatures of ultra-Orthodox Jews. Here in the US, protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, chanting “Jews will not replace us.” And, of course the continuing specter of the shootings at…
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Opinion The Conservative Movement Can, And Should, Welcome The Intermarried
(JTA) — Contemporary Jewish life is graced by extraordinary blessing: We are the heirs of a Torah of compassion and justice that has grown ever more supple and vibrant because of the dynamic nature of halachah (Jewish law) and the opportunity to observe mitzvot (commandments). At the same time, modernity has removed barriers of discrimination…
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