David Ellenson
By David Ellenson
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Opinion Love Israel? Oppose annexation.
This is one of many pieces The Forward is running on annexation. Read another point of view here and here. In both my professional and personal life, there has never been a time when I have not proudly been a Zionist. My relationship to Israel has been defined by an abiding understanding that to be…
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Letters No, David Myers Is Not A Radical. He Is The Embodiment Of The Center
We were deeply distressed to read the articles in Arutz Sheva and The Jewish Press as well as in a blog of the Algemeiner calling upon the Center for Jewish History to terminate David Myers as President and CEO of the Center for Jewish History on account of his views concerning the State of Israel….
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Opinion How Eugene Borowitz Reached My Heart With Inspiring Imperatives of Jewish Thought
(JTA) — In Ethics of the Fathers, the rabbis teach that we must grant respect and honor to an individual who teaches us even the smallest bit of knowledge. For those of us who were the students of Rabbi Eugene Borowitz, who died last week at the age of 91, the obligation is increased a…
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Life My Feminist Foremothers
This is the eleventh entry in an ongoing series exploring Jewish feminism. My own attachment to Jewish feminism arose from my relationship to the women in my family — my grandmothers, my mother, and my sister — during my childhood and teen-age years. I was very close to my two bubbes (grandmothers), both of whom…
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Opinion Reform Judaism Isn’t an Island
These days, everyone seems to have something to say about what they think is wrong with Reform Judaism. We have heard that the Reform movement is, at best, in stasis and, at worst, facing a significant decline in its membership rolls. Some argue that Reform institutions are insufficiently nimble and overly bureaucratic. Others point to…
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News Remembering Avi Gross Schaefer: Student, Soldier, Future Peacemaker
Avi Gross Schaefer, a 21-year-old veteran of the Israel Defense Forces and a freshman at Brown University, was killed almost instantly February 12, after being hit by a car driven by a drunken driver. Rabbi Arthur Gross Schaefer and his wife, Laurie Gross, a prominent artist, have lost a son, and the wider world lost…
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Opinion Obscene Orthodox Hatred Demands a Clear Denunciation
Several weeks ago, the former Israeli chief Sephardic rabbi, Mordecai Eliyahu, charged that the Holocaust was divine punishment meted out against our people on account of the sin of Reform Judaism. Such an accusation is infuriating, and unleashes unnecessary hatred and incitement among Jews. But there is unfortunately nothing particularly novel about this obscenity. I…
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News Students Seek Spiritual Growth Through Service
“It is vital to learn how to stand before God,” said Abraham Joshua Heschel, explaining his participation in the famed 1965 civil rights march from Selma to Montgomery, Ala. “Even without words, our march was worship.” The late rabbi’s spirit was very much in evidence during a recent 10-day rabbinical student mission to the river…
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