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Fast Forward ‘Offer your compassion’: Rabbis fundraise for World Central Kitchen after fatal airstrike
In the wake of an Israeli airstrike that killed 7 aid workers, Rabbi Debra Orenstein wanted to do something to restore hope
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Culture Sex tips from the Talmud, just in time for Valentine’s Day
Valentine may have been a saint, but passion was alive and well before Christianity
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Fast Forward An Israeli rabbi says he won’t eat until the Red Cross visits hostages in Gaza
Referencing a Talmudic teaching, Rabbi Avidan Freedman also drew a circle around himself, and vowed to stay within it until his demands were met
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Fast Forward ‘We were broken to see what we saw’: US rabbis visit Israel during wartime
The three-day solidarity mission brought the group through the ravaged communities of southern Israel and a volunteer center in Jerusalem
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News Orthodox Judaism has its first openly gay congregational rabbi. This is his story.
When a therapist proposed integrating his rabbinical and queer selves a few years ago, Rabbi Shua Brick just laughed
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Culture After 50 years, pioneering female rabbi is still practicing peace — and protesting
Lynn Gottlieb — one of the first women ordained as a rabbi in the U.S. reflects on her activist career — with no regrets
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Film & TV For ‘Rabbi On The Block,’ the street is her pulpit
A second documentary follows antiviolence activist Tamar Manasseh
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News Sermonizing about Israel can be risky. These High Holidays, some rabbis feel compelled to.
Israel ‘is at an inflection point,’ one rabbi said
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Theater Hidden in this picture, the murder of 1.1 million Jews
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News The great tent conspiracy theory: Are ‘outside agitators’ supplying protesters’ tents?
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Opinion Yes, antisemitism is rising. But pro-Palestinian protests aren’t the real threat to our campuses
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Opinion Edward Said tried to erase Jews. So do the pro-Palestinian Columbia protesters citing his legacy
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Fast Forward Ritchie Torres, Mike Lawler introduce bill that would allow feds to name antisemitism monitors to campuses
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Culture PEN America cancels New Voices festival over author outrage at Gaza response
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Looking Forward ‘All we can do is type’: A student journalist on covering the crackdown on campus protests
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News Israeli American professor to be honored at Columbia commencement amid campus protests