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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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Forverts in English The British Chief Rabbi that never was
Rabbi Louis Jacobs was ostracized by the British Orthodox rabbinate but his view of Jewish theology resonated for me
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Culture It wasn’t just the goblins — is J.K. Rowling doing Holocaust denial now?
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Opinion An elite literary journal imploded over an essay about the war — because it dared to humanize Israelis as well as Palestinians
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Opinion Canceling Ramy Youssef on SNL won’t help Israel
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Opinion Israel’s war is making American Jews unsafe. So why are so many still supporting it?
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