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Pittsburgh Police officer Sarah Pratt gets a hug before a Shabbat morning worship service held outside the Tree of Life Synagogue Saturday, Nov. 3, 2018 in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Jewish mourning in the ‘America of Everyone’

I finally understand: American Jews are not just Jews who happen to live here and not elsewhere — it’s an identity in itself

Yonatan Gher

One Donald down

Coming out a second time — this time with cancer — was a whole lot easier

Zaki Djemal

In pursuit of God and myself on Mt. Everest

Joining the trek was terrifying, but celebrating the vitality and wonder of creation was slowly transformative

Yesh Atid head Yair Lapid speaks at a rally marking 23 years since the assassination of prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, at Tel Aviv's Rabin Square on November 3, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Yair Lapid

Rabin Memorial Rally: The courage to change

Most Israelis don’t want incitement and a discourse of hate. It’s time to enlist them, instead of pushing them away

My parents. Former Soviet refusenik and prisoner, Israeli politician, human rights activist, and author Natan Sharansky, with his wife, Avital, after his release from prison in the Soviet Union. He landed in Israel on February 11, 1986. (Moshe Shai/FLASH90.)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

You think Jewish unity is impossible? I know better

What it means for all Jews to come together… for one Jewish cause

Illustrative. Summer grass field. (iStock)

Ilana Goldstein Saks

Praying and planting

Isaac seems like the boring patriarch, until you realize that he’s the Torah’s archetype for all humanity (Chayei Sarah)

Cartimandua, Queen of the Brigantes delivers Caractacus, King of the Silures, to the Roman General Ostorius,, by Francesco Bartolozzi (Public doman/ Wikimedia Commons)

David Sedley

Israel's new mayors and the matriarchs

It takes a special woman for the Bible to seek out her opinion — and value it!

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Yisroel Juskowitz

Nov 5, 2018, 9:28 AM

An Open Letter to the Democratic Party about Louis Farrakhan

Only 8 days ago, we all watched in horror as the worst antisemitic attack on US soil took place before our very eyes. A crazed gunman, screaming vile rants that “all Jews must die” opened fire on a group...

Nov 5, 2018, 9:28 AM

Israel’s Driverless Taxis May Change the World

Mobileye is an impressive Israeli-owned company that is poised to change the world. The company’s big announcement may be the step the company needs to become the next “big” company. Mobileye, Intel and Volkswagen plan to bring self-driving taxis...

Nov 5, 2018, 9:26 AM

Ice cream as a point of contention

When Ben and Jerry's announced its new flavor (Pecan Resist) and its intent to donate proceeds to four organizations, Color of Change, Honor the Earth, Neta, and Women's March. I was thrilled. They seemed to cover four different areas...

Nov 5, 2018, 9:26 AM

Remembering Life and Confronting Hate: Chayei Sara

Today, shivas in Pittsburgh are paused; our tradition teaches us to pause public mourning on Shabbat. Yet we gather as Jews, here and across America, with so many strong and difficult feelings: sadness, anger, vulnerability, and determination. I share those...

Nov 5, 2018, 7:31 AM

Three Tragedies. One Message.

Neria Cohen. Segev Pniel Avihail. Avraham David Moses. Yonatan Yitzchak Eldar. Roi Roth. Yohai Lipshitz. Yonadav Chaim Hirshfeld. Doron Mahareta. Rabbi Moshe Twersky. Rabbi Calman Levine. Rabbi Aryeh Kupinsky. Rabbi Avraham Shmuel Goldberg. Chaim Rotman. Irving Younger. Melvin Wax. Rose Mallinger. Bernice Simon. Sylvan Simon. Dr. Jerry Rabinowitz. Joyce Fienberg. Dr. Richard Gottfried. Daniel Stein. Cecil Rosenthal. David Rosenthal. Yeshivat Mercaz HaRav. Beis Keneses...

Nov 5, 2018, 6:29 AM

Searching for Light after Terror

This has been a trying time for the Jewish People. Eleven innocent Jews were savagely murdered while attending services on Shabbat morning. What is there to say in the face of such sadness, darkness and gloom? This past week's Torah...

Stephen Horenstein

Nov 5, 2018, 6:27 AM

Slowly Turning Luddite

6:30 am is a curious time. A city (Jerusalem) awakens with a faint rumble, bunched noise of distant planes and cars, electronic house sounds and nervous systems hums. I once imagined a city where electric sounds are forbidden, in...

Stephen M. Flatow

Nov 5, 2018, 6:21 AM

Meeting Yitzhak Rabin

I met Yitzhak Rabin once and for only a short time but the impression of the man I received is still with me. It was May 1995, about one month after my daughter Alisa had been murdered in a...

Nov 5, 2018, 6:13 AM

FYI: British Left hates Jews – won’t condemn Pittsburgh synagogue shooting

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Dear America, I know it’s been a tough week, especially for Jews. Whenever you’re feeling down keep this in mind: It could always be worse. You could be living in the UK, where the British Left hates Jews so much – all this...

Moshe-Mordechai van Zuiden

Nov 5, 2018, 3:34 AM

Did Yigal Amir accomplish anything murdering Yitzchak Rabin?

Israeli Chief-of Staff Yitzhak Rabin, is welcomed after the fall of Jerusalem to his army in June 1967. Rabin was killed Saturday night Nov. 4, 1995 by an assassin's bullets, his top aide, Eitan Haber, told a news conference. Rabin, 73, was gunned down at the end of a pro-peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square. Officials said the gunman was a right-wing Jew. (AP Photo)

A prominent Israeli politician now claims that the murder of Israel's Prime Minister, 23 years ago, accomplished nothing if not backfired. At first glance, this is not true. The aim of the murderer seemed to stop the allegedly disastrous peace...

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