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  The Raw Honesty of Klinghoffer

  “You’re enabling terrorism!” a woman said as I made my way through a maze of police barricades and a crowd of angry protestors chanting in front of Lincoln Center. A man standing next to her ostentatiously photographed ticket holders, as though documenting them in the act of committing a crime. Neither of them understood a…

  By Lisa Goldman

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  Using Ebola To Scare Israelis Off African Migrants

  Getty Images Nine workers at Israel’s Ben Gurion Airport lost their jobs yesterday because they refused to interact with passengers who arrived from Ethiopia. The workers, contractor employees of the Israel Airports Authority, were asked to hand out Ebola information pamphlets to the Ethiopian Airlines passengers and to direct them to an area where they…

  By Yael Even Or Oct 23, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Kiss Those Nobels Goodbye

  The Nobel Prize committee has now announced the last of its science selections for 2014, and for the first time in this new century, there are no Jews among the laureates. This fact would hardly be worth noting if not for another fact: that three laureates a year have been Jews since 2000. And if…

  By Noah Efron Oct 23, 2014 | 4 min read

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  How Not To Respond to the Ottawa Shootings

  Shootings in Canadian Parliament captured on film / YouTube As I write this while at home in central Ottawa, my husband is in lockdown at work and my kids are being kept indoors all day in their secured school. Ottawa residents joined by onlookers the world over are still trying to piece together today’s events,…

  By Mira Sucharov Oct 22, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Monica Lewinsky Joins Twitter. Should We Listen?

  Monica Lewinsky (JTA) — Monica Lewinsky has come full circle. The Jewish woman who, with some justice, described herself as “the first person to have their reputation completely destroyed worldwide via the Internet” returned to the cybersphere on Monday with a Twitter account. Is she a glutton for punishment? She’s reentering the e-public eye just as…

  By Anthony Weiss Oct 22, 2014 | 2 min read
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  How Rudy Giuliani Got ‘Klinghoffer’ Right

  Never thought I’d say this, but Rudy Giuliani got it right. The former mayor of New York laid out a principled, informed stand against the controversial opera “The Death of Klinghoffer,” arguing that the murder of a disabled American Jew is presented in a way that glorifies and excuses terrorism. I don’t agree with Giuliani’s…

  By Jane Eisner Oct 22, 2014 | 3 min read
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  This Is How I Want To Die

  Thinkstock Editor’s Note: The following 2011 Yom Kippur sermon by Jack Moline has been edited for style and length. Below, you will find a brief survey allowing you to send us your end-of-life stories, a selection of which may be published. We hope to prompt conversation on that most difficult question for the living: How…

  By Jack Moline Oct 22, 2014 | 6 min read
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  Who Needs Halloween When We’ve Got Shabbat?

  Universal Studios Hollywood (JTA) — Halloween this year falls on Shabbat. On a Friday night, trick-or-treaters, even Jewish ones, will be knocking. Should we open the door? Or should we be spooked about joining the celebration? After reading that on Oct. 31, Urban Adama, a Jewish-oriented educational farm and community center in Berkeley, Calif., would be…

  By Edmon J. Rodman Oct 21, 2014 | 4 min read
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  Kalamazoo Police Thought My Lulav Was a Sword

  Mordechai Lightstone demonstrates the proper use of a lulav I was harassed by the police outside of Kalamazoo, Michigan for using my lulav and etrog. Last Tuesday, while traveling between Chicago and Detroit, my family and I stopped at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo. Traveling with small children is always a challenge, and the museum offered…

  By Mordechai Lightstone Oct 20, 2014 | 4 min read
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  The Rabbinate as Taught to Me by Avi Weiss

  Rabbi Avi Weiss “Retire is a word I’d like to retire,” said my rabbi, Rav Avi Weiss, from the pulpit he has held for over 40 years. Over the holiday of Shemini Atzeret, Rav Avi announced that he would step back from his position as senior rabbi at the synagogue he helped found, The Hebrew…

  By Avram Mlotek Oct 20, 2014 | 3 min read
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  Clothes Help Make Us — From the Fig Leaf to Ralph Lauren

  Of all the methods of self-expression, the act of dressing oneself probably gets the least respect. Our culture sees an interest in clothes as a sign of vanity and materialism, the fixation of brainwashed lemmings who rely on the capitalist-driven edicts of glossy magazines to tell them who they are. This is a rather shallow…

  By Elissa Strauss Oct 20, 2014 | 4 min read