Rabbi Stephanie Ruskay has worked for American Jewish World Service and the Jewish Service Corps. She’s been an associate dean for the last 10 years at the Conservative movement’s Jewish Theological Seminary.
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If it sounds like a lullaby, it’s not Carlebach
My opinion The Carlebach liturgy is not meant to feel good and make you doze off. Rather, it should lift your spirit and stir your soul. It should break your isolation and connect you with the other people praying. And together you storm the…
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Introduction to the Covenant of Care Series
INTRODUCTION (Revised Version) Strange Fruit in the Fields of Memory:Pluralistic Judaism and the Work of Renewal After Catastrophe What if the next chapter of Jewish history is being written right now—not in Knesset corridors or on patrol…
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Best Possibility for a Positive Israeli Future
The current situation for Israel and Jews worldwide has become overwhelmingly alarming. Despite our mission to be a “light unto the nations” (Isaiah 42:6), Israel has become one of the most hated nations in history. Our image worldwide has…
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Piers Morgan grills Nick Fuentes on Jews, the Holocaust and Hitler. Did it pay off?
Another conservative media personality with links to mainstream culture has interviewed Nick Fuentes, the avowed white nationalist and antisemite whose rising popularity and recent chummy interview with Tucker Carlson has…
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South Korea is arming the Mideast. Will it mitigate risks for Israel?
With countries from Egypt to Iraq and Saudi Arabia buying its weapons, Seoul needs clear safeguards to ensure it does not put its allies at risk
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Ignoring Lior Raz
Watching the Fauda star not look at me only confirms he has seen me – this is high alert
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How goodly were these tents
As the physical signs of the war disappear, so too have the gatherings that showed us how to maintain hope and how to be our best selves
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Hitler Marriages and Happy Places
If you live in Israel right now, you are probably watching Happy Place (Makom Sameach). It follows Vered (played by Noa Koler), a speech therapist in the throes of a midlife crisis, who is trying to “save” her depressed, aging mother, Nomi…
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Freedom, Mastery, and Joseph: Whom Do You Serve?
Thomas Mann’s magnificent retelling of the Joseph saga captures something the Torah hints at but never states explicitly. In one unforgettable scene, Mann imagines Joseph asking the Ishmaelite slave trader a question that seems, at first,…
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