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After the first time I gave birth, I was resting in my bed at Kaiser, waiting for the airline-style kosher food from the cafeteria to arrive.
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I’m very hard on myself. But recently, I found two words that have given me permission to be self-compassionate while continuing to pursue my ravenously ambitious goals.
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Many historical scholars believe that at least 80 percent of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt under Pharaoh’s rule stayed behind.
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Soon after taking power in Germany in 1933, the Nazi Party staged a boycott of Jewish-owned businesses.
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The Passover seder can be seen as a great dance between darkness and light. We don’t read our story like a Hollywood movie. Slavery is not a set up for the big ending of liberation.
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Even prior to COVID-19 ours has not been an era for facing stark reality.
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You may have noticed that in recent years, the term “Jewish peoplehood” has grown in prominence.
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The major theme of Passover is freedom.
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Three female leaders on three different continents have taken steps in the last several days to impact U.S. and global politics.
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Post-COVID, the silent enemy of civilized society may well be the Schlepp Factor.
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On the Jewish night of big questions, Former Israel Chief Sephardic Rabbi Ben-Zion Meir Hai Uziel had one big question for all of us: Why be Jewish?
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The following 18 marriage-boosting philosophies have helped us enormously and allowed us to provide a model for our children to follow in their own marriages.
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It is in celebration of Passover, the festival of freedom, that we can enjoy the free speech that is afforded to every American.
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In spreading the propaganda of Jews as foreigners and land thieves, Palestinian leaders know that nothing fires up the masses like Jerusalem.
The post No, Secretary Blinken, Palestinian Terror is Not “Senseless” appeared first on Jewish Journal.
With all the talk about that dramatic moment at the Oscars, much of the world ignored a more important story, one about true courage and what it really means to come to someone’s defense.
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What harms Jewish identity in Israel is cynicism. It’s the belief that governing coalitions that exclude significant segments of Israeli society are good for the country.
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Every ten years, the holidays of Passover, Easter and Ramadan overlap, and U.S. diplomats have been working with security officials throughout the region to prepare for an increased likelihood of violence in Jerusalem as tensions rise and true believers of all three faiths converge on the city.
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When it comes to how women treat men in male-female marriages, my eyes are open.
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“Prayer for the French Republic” is a very Zionist play.
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Change is happening fast in Turkey, and countries from Europe to the Middle East and the US are taking note.
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My friend Jonny 8-Vax is in trouble. He avoided getting COVID due to his eight vaccines, but succumbed to something far worse. Jonny fell in love with a Democrat.
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I recently came across a letter of apology sent to me in 1982, when I was a 21-year-old senior at UC Berkeley, sent to me by a slightly older grad student named Todd.
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Yes, men — even good men with good intentions — can slowly deplete women like no one else.
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It seems as if every week, I get another call about another communal dispute.
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Joe Biden wasn’t the first U.S. president to think he could put the Middle East on the back burner while he focused on other global hot spots.
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Is staying alive not a Jewish value? Does extremist violence not diminish Israel? Is freedom from wanton murder not a human right?
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Every soul in America knows that if a janitor had smacked Chris Rock, he would have been escorted out of the premises and put under arrest.
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America’s institutions are failing abysmally, and our ideals are starting to lose all meaning. Most of the trouble has to do with a ferocious aversion to truth.
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When Smith walked onstage and assaulted Rock, he violated what I consider the most important rule in all of life: yell at me, scream at me, insult me, but don’t touch my body.
The post What No One is Saying About Will Smith’s Assault on Chris Rock: Getting Smacked Hurts! appeared first on Jewish Journal.
Here we are today, 2022. The Cold War of my childhood has become a real war.
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I have always loved the night. I’ve always found it wonderful.
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Los Angeles is a place where you can very easily feel like you’re always trying to keep up with the Joneses.
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Nowruz is a huge deal, celebrated by over 300 million, from Parsi populations in India to Kurds in Iraq and Uighurs in China to Persian Jews in L.A.
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How one woman’s life turned upside down in less than two weeks. She heard bombing near her apartment in Kiev, escaped across the border at night, traveled through three more countries, and is currently in Los Angeles.
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Republicans put the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) in a delicate position. Then Democrats made the worst of it. The most likely loser is Israel.
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The positive responses I got were grateful that I focused on two leaders who showed some wisdom in the midst of heated emotions.
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At the start of the pandemic, when the world went into lockdown, I was scared of catching COVID.
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When I was a young mother, I thought: When the kids are all grown up, then I’ll be able to work so much more!
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Ensuring that our behavior is equal to our values is a good message for all Jews in all places.
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Has Naftali Bennett figured out a way to stop the Iran nuclear arms agreement?
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I don’t know about you, but I love when people show their true colors.
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It’s widely accepted by now that in his zeal to get Iran to sign a nuclear deal—any nuclear deal—Biden has squandered America’s enormous leverage and caved to virtually every Iranian demand.
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Forty years after the collapse of the Iron Curtain, Putin decided it was time to, once again, install some drapes.
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Regardless of where one sits politically, it’s clear that the “bad bargain” looming in Vienna would be a victory for evil and a defeat for the rest of us.
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Ukrainians are fighting so ferociously because they’re fighting not just for sovereignty but for a country they believe in.
The post Putin’s #1 Enemy Is Not Zelensky, It’s Freedom appeared first on Jewish Journal.
It seems frivolous now, but once upon a time the nation spent a week debating whether a woman who didn’t want to stay home and bake cookies was fit to be the first lady.
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As COVID restrictions are being relaxed nationwide, we are entering the period of the Great Unmasking, and not a minute too soon.
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Not knowing Hebrew feels like a barrier in the Orthodox world, one that separates me from everyone else.
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It should come as no surprise that once progressive American social justice paradigms, brewed in the guts of academia and activism, weighed in on the conflict in Ukraine, they quickly became instruments of the Kremlin’s agenda.
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