‘Two Israels’: What’s really behind the judicial reform protests
by Andrew Silow-Carroll (JTA) — When Benjamin Netanyahu put his controversial calls for judicial reform on pause two weeks ago, many thought the protesters in…
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From the sources by Eliezer Segal: Where the wild things were
by Eliezer Segal (AJNews) – What exactly was the fourth of the ten plagues that were inflicted upon the Egyptians? It goes by the Hebrew…
Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski: Chag Pesach – What’s in a name?
By Rabbi Nachum Aaron Kutnowski (AJNews) – As the Passover season begins to blossom and emerge, many of us pull out our Kittels (white robe),…
Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides: Pesach – The time to make the most of our time.
By Rabbi Ilana Krygier Lapides (AJNews) – With the holiday of Passover (Pesach) upon us, I find myself marveling at how quickly time has been…
Rabbi Leonard Cohen: Checking ourselves at Pesach
by Rabbi Leonard Cohen (AJNews) – Each Pesach we observe the mitzvah of “bedikat chametz” – the cleaning out of chametz, i.e., leavened foods, from our…