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Carole Priven's tattoo is a copy of the one that was forced on her late husband at Auschwitz.
Posted inYom HaShoah

Your tattoo was forced on you at Auschwitz. Mine honors your memory.

Carole Priven by Carole Priven April 30, 2019May 2, 2019
People embrace outside the Chabad of Poway, after a gunman opened fire during services on the last day of Passover, April 27, 2019, leaving one person dead and three others injured. (Photo/JTA-David McNew-Getty Images)
Posted inUncategorized

The Poway shooting exposes the fractured state of our communal discourse

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 29, 2019
a young man in a white shirt and blue tie speaks into a microphone in front of a moderate crowd
Posted inLocal Voice

Unlearning my Christian stereotypes about Pharisees

Addie Liechty by Addie Liechty April 26, 2019
Has the Hebrew word “goy” become a slur?
Posted inAnalysis, Opinion

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

by Andrew Silow-Carroll April 25, 2019
A woman in blue scrubs (Sandberg) stands next to another woman in blue scrubs wearing a stethoscope. they are standing outside of a small building labeled "pediatric ward." a local woman with a baby is walking into the building.
Posted inFirst Person

Lessons from practicing medicine in a refugee camp

Michelle Sandberg by Michelle Sandberg April 24, 2019April 24, 2019
Two women kneel pensively on a path near headstones and open grass
Posted inUncategorized

Memory Garden will be a place of healing for grieving parents

Tad Taube by Tad Taube April 23, 2019
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara, greet supporters during his victory speech in Tel Aviv, April 10, 2019. (Photo/JTA-Amir Levy-Getty Images)
Posted inLetters

Bibi’s re-election; Nazis and bacon bagels; a new home for BimBam; etc.

by J. Readers April 18, 2019
"The Songs of Joy" by James Tissot, showing Miriam and the other Israelite women singing after crossing the Red Sea
Posted inEditorial

Dayenu. But is it really enough?

by J. Editorial Board April 17, 2019April 18, 2019
Do you yearn for an earthly Jerusalem — or its heavenly counterpart? (Ancient earthly Jerusalem as painted by James Tissot, ca. 1890)
Posted inPassover

After Israeli election, what do I mean by ‘next year in Jerusalem’?

Rabbi Katie Mizrahi headshot by Rabbi Katie Mizrahi April 16, 2019April 17, 2019
Screenshot from "Prince of Egypt," as Moses begins to feel pangs of empathy for Hebrew slaves
Posted inPassover

Passover is a time to practice empathy for ‘the stranger’ among us

Rabbi Lavey Derby by Rabbi Lavey Derby April 15, 2019April 15, 2019

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