Funeral Fiascos: Should Jews Rethink How We Honor the Dead?
A friend of mine recently attended the funeral of someone he had known for many years. About a dozen people got up to speak. Most of them spoke badly. Often the...
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Bluster, Bible and Platitudes: Pence’s Knesset Speech Short on Solutions
Vice President Mike Pence’s speech to the Knesset wasn’t as bad as I feared. But mostly it was a reminder of why Israel’s left is disillusioned and Israel’s right is...
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‘One-state Solution’: Israeli-sanctioned Apartheid or Bloody Civil War
Who would have thought? The forces of the Jewish hard right and the Jewish hard left have united. The Likud Central Committee and the Jewish Voice for Peace have joined...
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Netanyahu Ditched the Jewish Diaspora in 2017. Why?
Everyone knows by now that Benjamin Netanyahu has made an utter mess of relations between American Jews and the State of Israel. Everyone knows that Netanyahu has...
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Trump’s Proclamation on Jerusalem Was No Sell-Out to Netanyahu
President Trump’s statement on Jerusalem was good for the peace camp. The center and mainstream left in Israel understood this, while pro-Israel liberals and leftists...
Read MoreAbout Eric Yoffie
Rabbi Eric Yoffie is a writer, lecturer, and internationally-known religious leader. A bold, compelling, and inspiring speaker, he has presented at the World Economic Forum in Davos and has appeared on Fox news, CNN, and many other news outlets. He writes regularly for Time, The Huffington Post, The Jerusalem Post and the Israeli daily Haaretz. He speaks on a wide-range of topics.
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What Five Books Should You Read To Be An Educated Jew?
(Credit: Moment Magazine Summer 2019)
