Hosting can feel intimidating, especially when your budget isn’t that of a celebrity chef. The good news: A great Hanukkah party isn’t about having the perfect tablescape or an eight-course menu. It’s about light, friends, fried…
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8 Reasons to Vote Against the Death Penalty Bill on These 8 Nights of Hanukkah
To the Esteemed Members of the Knesset, For each of the eight nights of Hanukkah this year, we, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” invite you to consider these eight facts about capital punishment as we…
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Kibbutzim: Israel’s Heart, Hope, and Strength
Kibbutzim: The Communities That Built Israel And the Communities That Paid the Highest Price Few stories capture the spirit of Israel like the story of the kibbutz. These collective communities, founded by young Jewish pioneers more than a…
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Can Jewish Liberals change Netanyahu’s policies toward Palestinians?
The Times of Israel reports that Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove, a prominent American Jewish leader in New York City, said that Jewish support for New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani was unsurprising, while calling for a more expansive view of…
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‘Israel Is Not an Apartheid State — We’re the Living Evidence’
By Dr. Shmuel Legesse: Former NYC Supreme Court Investigator/Detective/educator in conflict resolution, restorative peace, and moral diplomacy; Upcoming Author of Moral Diplomacy for a Broken World, inspired by Rabbi Jonathan Sacks Apartheid,…
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Venezuela’s Occupiers Per Machado = South Africa’s Allies
In a live-streamed press conference this week, Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado delivered a devastating indictment of her nation’s fate. At the 24:27 mark she declared that Venezuela “has been invaded for years” and…
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The Northern Front is MENA’s Front: What a Russia-NATO Conflict Means for Israel
A direct military confrontation between Russia and NATO—once confined to war-gaming exercises and think-tank scenarios—now occupies the realm of the conceivable. For Israel, sitting thousands of kilometres from the Suwalki Gap or the Baltic…
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Trump Administration’s ADD is Endangering its Peace Plan.
While the implementation of Trump’s 20-point plan for Gaza continues to falter, the president’s “peacemaker” duo– Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner – have moved on to Russia and Ukraine. The transition between two different crisis…
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A Novel Experience
The French lesson was just coming to an end last Monday morning when I received a call from my OH saying that he had fallen and hurt himself and was waiting for me in the nearby shopping mall. My good friend Lois took me to…
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Jealousy’s Destructiveness
The story of Yosef and his brothers is one of the most tragic stories in Jewish History. It was clearly part of a Divine plan that the Jewish people would go down to Egypt. But the circumstances that caused it, are most troubling. The Mussar…
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