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Community Worried about Jewish Assimilation? Be A Good Person — For Judaism’s Sake
A version of this article originally appeared in the Texas Jewish Post. It was one of the more uplifting articles I had read this year. The Jewish News Service reported on the inspiring story of Rabbi Ari Sytner, who had donated a kidney to a stranger living in Israel back in 2012 when he was…
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Opinion Jewish College Students Aren’t Losing Their Religion
In a recent analysis of U.S. religious groups, the Pew Research Center reported that the most educated American Jews are also the least religious. In considering these findings, it’s tempting to think that secular education leads to assimilation among American Jews (I want to be clear that Pew, a leading source of data on contemporary…
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Opinion These Are The Two Most Common Kinds Of Anti-Semitism
Fifty years ago, responding to growing tensions between Blacks and Jews following the Civil Rights movement, James Baldwin contributed an op-ed to the New York Times titled “Negroes are Anti-Semitic Because They are Anti-White.” “In the American context, the most ironical thing about Negro anti-Semitism is that the Negro is really condemning the Jew for…
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Community Where Did All The Jewish People Go?
“Everywhere around the world They’re coming to America Every time that flag’s unfurled They’re coming to America Got a dream to take them there They’re coming to America Got a dream they’ve come to share They’re coming to America.” — Neil Diamond, America The words of the song express the hopes and dreams of all…
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Culture The Latin Lothario Who Wasn’t (But He Was Jewish)
Ricardo Cortez is an enigma. The little-known golden age movie star was my distant cousin, though I never knew him. With his big eyes, aquiline nose and olive skin, Cortez resembled my late grandfather Alan. Alan never talked much about Ricardo, except to mention now and again that he had a cousin in Hollywood. But…
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Opinion Where Is Bibi’s ‘Mazel Tov’ for Mahmoud and Morel?
Mahmoud Mansour and Morel Malka on their wedding day, August 17, 2014 / Haaretz (Haaretz) — To disrupt a wedding celebration and spoil the joy of two young people joining their lives together, one needs a very good reason. Racism clearly does not qualify. There’s an easy way for even the most tribal and anti-assimilationist Jew…
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