I am familiar with David Schoen’s navigation between Jewish observance and public life. But my empathy with him is transient. As Donald Trump’s lawyer, instead…
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The Capitol siege has, finally, triggered calls for soul-searching within an Orthodox community in lockstep with Trump. It will be hard work Source: https://www.haaretz.com
How one man’s quest, half a century ago, for the right to define his own family’s identity unwittingly set up a momentous clash between Israel’s…
Orthodox Jews helped win a Supreme Court victory for religious freedom in America. The response? Rank bigotry, insults and wild accusations – from fellow Jews …
We Jews already made a crucial decision about what religious freedom really means some 2,000 years ago. And it isn’t about defying COVID, shirking social…
The former UK Chief Rabbi was a model for a modern Orthodox generation, excelling in both Jewish and secular learning, and elucidating Jewish thought to…
U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
U.S. Jews constitutes some of Trump’s fiercest opponents – and his most fervent supporters. This is how, and why, the split happened, and whether the…
Backing Trump is a morally disastrous decision for Orthodox Jews, and for Orthodox rabbis in particular. He stands against everything we believe in Source: https://www.haaretz.com
The violent conflict in Brooklyn’s ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods over compliance with COVID-19 regulations reveals far more about the community’s retreat from an inclusive American democracy –…
We spent three weeks quarantined in our hometown, New Rochelle. But in Jerusalem, we’ve found lockdown, little leadership and a pandemic out of control. Our…
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The Jewish and black communities face a common enemy in white supremacy. But being targets of the same hate is not the only reason for…
‘Don’t blame, don’t complain’: This Independence Day, Israel’s honoring an Orthodox cheerleader pushing obedience for wives — and for Diaspora Jews. It’s a fitting choice…
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Four types of physical and invisible partitions erase and humiliate ultra-Orthodox women, but it’s all women who suffer Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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