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NEW YORK (JTA) — The holiday of Sukkot isn’t complete without a lulav and an etrog, the four species that Jews are commanded to wave on the harvest holiday. But according to a new book, it wasn’t until the Second Temple period that Jews started using the lemon-like etrog as part of...
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Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan began her discussion at a Brooklyn day school last week by acknowledging that she wasn’t able to talk about politics, and that the evening, therefore, was going to be “dull.” It was anything but, because it turns out that the 58-year-old Upper West Side native could have had...
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One of the largest donors to the Republican Party in New England, Seth Klarman, is calling on voters to support Democratic candidates in the upcoming elections, and he put his money where his mouth is. Klarman, who is a registered Independent and stresses that “I’m not a Democrat,” told New York Times columnist...
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A June 2017 column by Jewish Week editor and publisher Gary Rosenblatt about the endangered state of journalism included this passage: “What separates professional journalists from people who set up websites or blogs is a commitment to seven principles, established in 1923 by the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Perhaps more relevant than ever, they are: responsibility; freedom of the press; independence; sincerity; truthfulness and accuracy; impartiality; fair play; and decency.” This resonated with us as we prepared our annual message to you, the readers and supporters of The Jewish...
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What is the value of memory? It can serve as a corrective and can enable events to be retold, leading to a different outcome. When we remember events of the past, we see them again. We have a chance to envision them in a new light. Hazinu is in the penultimate section of...
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Secularism in Israel is on the rise. No, secularism is on the decline in the Jewish state. That seeming paradox — which tells a generational story — is one of the key takeaways from Israel’s Central Bureau of Statistics’ annual pre-Rosh HaShanah report released last week. Most commentators seized on the country’s growth (the...
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