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Tag Archives: Pirkei Avot

MIDRASH: The Stories We Tell

Reba Carmel

WHY THE TORAH REMAINS AN OPEN BOOK by Reba Carmel   Moses received the Torah at Sinai and he transmitted it to Joshua,  and Joshua to the elders, and the elders to the prophets, and the prophets transmitted it to the Men of the Great Assembly . . . [who] said three maxims: Be measured […]

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On Tisha B’Av and the Danger of Jewish Zealotry

Maya Haber

by Maya Haber   WITH THE ARRIVAL of Tisha B’Av, we ponder the destruction of the ancient Temples and this year give thanks that Armageddon was recently averted — though just barely. On July 14, three terrorists, Arab citizens of Israel, launched an attack at the Temple Mount/Noble Sanctuary complex in East Jerusalem, killing two Israeli […]

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People of the Book 101

Bennett Muraskin

by Bennett Muraskin Discussed in this essay: The People and the Books: 18 Classics of Jewish Literature, by Adam Kirsch. W.W. Norton & Company, 2016, 407 pages. LITERARY CRITIC, essayist, and secular Talmudist Adam Kirsch is a 40-year-old Jewish intellectual with an extraordinary breadth and depth of knowledge. He has a regular column in the […]

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What to Do about Terrorism

lawrencebush

U.S. Out of the Middle East! by Lawrence Bush From the Spring 2015 issue of Jewish Currents IT TAKES A LEAP of the humanistic imagination to feel even a shred of understanding for radical Islamists who are terrorizing the Middle East. The alternative to making that leap, however, is simply to rage, “Let’s kill them, […]

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Turning Away from Militarism

The Editorial Board

An Editorial From the Spring, 2012 issue of Jewish Currents The non-violence practiced by men like Gandhi and King may not have been practical or possible in every circumstance, but the love that they preached… must always be the North Star that guides us on our journey…. For if we lose that faith — if […]

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Ethics and Politics: A Conversation with Randy Cohen

lawrencebush

Randy Cohen has been best known since 1999 as the writer of a weekly column in the Sunday New York Times Magazine in which he responds with acuity and humor to the ethical dilemmas of real-life people. For seven years, Cohen was a staff writer for Late Night with David Letterman, for which he shared […]

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Further Reading

The Capitalist’s Kibbutz

A New Cold War Threatens Chinese Americans

The Yiddishist Neocon

The Prophet of Mt. Mitchell

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