Asher Lopatin
By Asher Lopatin
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Opinion Make Israel a Personal Issue for Congregation
Thank God the world is obsessed with Israel! I’m even more grateful that the younger generation of Jews — millennials, for instance — are also passionate about Israel. But you wouldn’t always know it from events that are planned around the Jewish state. We’ve had numerous Israel Friday night dinners at our synagogue over the…
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News One Great Sukkah
On the High Holy Days we go off to our own synagogues within our own denominations to pray and be inspired. But Sukkot offers the vision of one big sukkah, or one big shul, in which every Jew can fit and feel welcome. In the Babylonian Talmud, our rabbis state: “‘Every citizen shall dwell in…
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Opinion A Palestinian was shot and paralyzed over a generator. Now Israel threatens to take his home
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