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It has been unfolding slowly for decades, but the recent war between Israel and Hamas highlighted and accelerated our crisis. We are breaking along the same fissures as a century ago. The fault line ...

Something is rotten in the state of liberalism that threatens the future of progressive Judaism. Jews who call themselves “liberal” join organizations seeking to boycott, divest and sanction Israel in ...

First, historian Tony Judt griped that the character of the Israeli state was too Jewish, labeling it the “an anachronism.” Now, he’s complaining that the lens through which we view the Holocaust is ...

I grew up with an epic clash of narratives, as did so many of my Jewish-American peers. On the one hand, we were told that everyone is equal, and therefore we should judge people on their actions and ...

The following essay is an excerpt from Mark Gerson's new book, The Telling: How Judaism's Essential Book Reveals the Meaning of Life, now out from St. Martin's Essentials. The first thing that God ...

Everyone is familiar will Hillel's quote, loosely translated, "If I am not for myself, who am I? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?" I have always understood this to mean that an ...

Please note that the posts on The Blogs are contributed by third parties. The opinions, facts and any media content in them are presented solely by the authors, and neither The Times of Israel nor its ...

Everyone is familiar will Hillel’s quote in Ethics of the Fathers, loosely translated, “If I am not for myself, who am I? If I am only for myself, what am I? If not now, when?” I have always ...