Naamah Kelman
By Naamah Kelman
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Community This year for the High Holidays, female faces filled my screen
My late father, Rabbi Wolfe Kelman, would often tell the story of a Hasidic rabbi, the Kotzker Rebbe, who wanted to give the Almighty a blessing. Instead of constantly asking for blessings, this rebbe felt it was time to give God some comfort, too. But what blessing could a human possibly offer the divine? Certainly…
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Life Here’s How American Jews Ought To Engage With Israelis
Rachel Cowan first came to Israel in the mid-1960’s with her then-new husband, the journalist Paul Cowan. She was not Jewish at the time. She and Paul were freshly acquainted with the harsh reality of the American South, where they were volunteering then. And as they toured and volunteered in Israel, they witnessed the poverty…
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Culture Capturing a Free City’s Myriad Legacies
In March, our eldest daughter took us for a walk in Tel Aviv. A tour guide and educator, she pointed out the poet Chaim Nachman Bialik’s home, located on the street that bears his name. We walked the streets of the first Hebrew speaking city, whose first mayor, Meir Dizengoff, had been part of the…
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