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Opinion As we approach the High Holidays, I’m making amends for my smartphone addiction
I'm doing teshuva for choosing screens over faces
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Opinion With the latest staggering indictment, Donald Trump may finally face his personal Yom Kippur
As we enter Elul — the Jewish month for penitence and reflection — all eyes are on Georgia and the man who was just indicted there
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BINTEL BRIEF An online friend didn’t realize their remark was antisemitic — but didn’t apologize. Am I wrong to want more?
Understanding has to cut both ways, but it's hard to figure out what that looks like
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Culture Hey Donald Trump, Israel called — they want their ancient oil lamps back
Exactly how did historic artifacts wind up in Mar-a-Lago, and what do they tell us about the indicted former president?
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Culture Evangelicals love to compare Trump to King David — but just how similar are they?
David slept with Batsheva, Trump slept with Stormy Daniels — and the similarities end there
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BINTEL BRIEF My sister cut me out of her life after our father died. How do I fix this?
Bintel says you can open the door — but you can’t make her walk through
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Opinion I was wrong about Israel. I apologized. Then President Carter gave me a lesson in grace
Carter owed me nothing, yet gave me a sense there is a capacity within us all for unconditional love
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Sports The Jewish world has largely forgiven Meyers Leonard. Why can’t everyone else?
It's been almost two years since Leonard used a slur on a livestream. But it doesn't seem like that's the grudge
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News Canada was ashamed to have saluted a Ukrainian who fought for Hitler. But that salute didn’t come from nowhere
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Culture He’s the greatest Jewish storyteller of our generation — isn’t it time for him to win the Nobel Prize?
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Forverts in English Hilarious video about the bris of a convert on Rosh Hashanah
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Art Haunting, poignant, unsettling, riveting — images from the precarious lives of artists in a diverse Israeli city
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Opinion The chaos is the point: Matt Gaetz and the mainstreaming of conspiracy, xenophobia and antisemitism
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