Tag: antisemitism
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Each of us a Pillar
Our Torah reading for this Shabbat begins with Moses gathering the People of Israel and proclaiming, “You stand this day, all of you, before the ETERNAL your God… to enter into the covenant with the Eternal, your God.” What follows—although not described explicitly in the Torah—is a ceremony reaffirming the covenant that God made with…
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Happy Birthday Israel
When Theodore Herzl conceived of the idea of a Jewish State, he hoped that it would solve the “Jewish problem” — that antisemitism would be eradicated if Jews could become a normal people in a normal nation state. Yet here we are, 77 years after the founding of the State of Israel, and antisemitism is…
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Out of Egypt Part V
On our tour of Egypt I had eagerly anticipated our visit to the Ben Ezra Synagogue in Cairo, which was recently re-opened as a tourist site by the Egyptian government. The Ben Ezra Synagogue is the place where the Cairo Geniza was discovered, a treasure trove of Jewish manuscript fragments from the 6th to the…
Rabbi Marc D. Rudolph 