Letters from the Editor
What I learned about Israeli politics from Yair Lapid
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We are all Lag B’Omer pilgrims on Mount Meron
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Canned beef with juices and other lessons from a year volunteering at the food pantry
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‘Shabbat is my time for figuring out the world’: a Q/A with Robin Washington, our new Editor-at-Large
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Looking Forward: Introducing a new format for our Editor-in-Chief’s weekly newsletter
Almost two years into writing a weekly reflection, it’s time to freshen things up.
Four Questions about matzo brei, starting with why don’t we eat it year-round
Our editor ponders the unanswerable: sweet or savory? Matzah or matzo? Maybe everything just has its season(ing).
Meet the Israeli Reform rabbi who just made history getting elected to Knesset
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This Passover, we are all segments of the orange on our Seder plates
The backstory of the orange on the Seder plate has long gotten muddled. But this year, it has a new, broader symbolism.
A Jewish thing happened on the way to our NYC mayoral forum
We decided not to ask pointedly Jewish questions, since New York’s 1.1 million Jews care about all the issues. But we still got Jewish answers.
Confessions of a lockdown addict: I don’t want to go back to the old “normal”
Truth time: I don’t want to go back to the old “normal.”