Rabbi Rachel Timoner is senior rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim in Park Slope, Brooklyn.
Rachel Timoner
By Rachel Timoner
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A holiday normally associated with revelry needs reimagining this year
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Community Scribe | We are 400 Rabbis who support Governor Cuomo And Mayor De Blasio
We are rabbis and other Jewish religious leaders representing every movement of Judaism, who stand in support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and Mayor Bill de Blasio for using data-driven, geographically-based efforts to contain the spread of COVID-19. We condemn the lack of compliance with public health directives and recent violent reactions from some individuals within…
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Opinion Every Jew must decide which side they’re on
On the first day, a white woman made a panicked call to 911, because a black man bird-watching nearby in Central Park politely asked her to leash her dog. On the second day, George Floyd, a 46-year-old black man, was arrested and lynched by Derek Chauvin, a white police officer, who pressed his knee into…
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Opinion New York’s new “no-bail” law is not bad for the Jews
A week ago Sunday, 25,000 people participated in the “No Hate, No Fear” march across the Brooklyn Bridge, coming together to stand up to anti-Semitism in solidarity with the victims of recent attacks in New York. We remain concerned for their welfare and committed to keeping our communities safe. One widely shared photo taken that…
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Opinion Fellow Dykes: We Must Be Both Pro-Israel And Pro-Palestine
I remember the first Dyke March, organized by the Lesbian Avengers in 1993 during the LGBT March on Washington. I was there, and I remember feeling that I was finally free — that we dykes could claim all of who we were — our full and complex identities, our bodies, our love, our commitments to…
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Opinion Democrats: Don’t Boycott AIPAC. Go – And Confront Netanyahu
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will take center stage next week at the annual AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington. Against a backdrop of 20,000 cheering attendees, including scores of members of Congress and other dignitaries, Netanyahu is no doubt hoping that his recent embrace of the violent, extremist and unabashedly racist Jewish Power Party will…
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