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A Rabbi Wonders if Jews Sacrificed Their Sense of Peoplehood on the Altar of Universalism
“Direct your hearts and your eyes towards your people!”
Ammiel Hirsch
Ammiel Hirsch is the senior rabbi of the Stephen Wise Free Synagogue in New York City and the former executive director of the Association of Reform Zionists of America.
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Progressive Jews Abandon Their Commitment to Jewish Solidarity at Their Own Peril
Something is rotten in the state of liberalism.
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The Answer to the Israel-Diaspora Malady Lies Not in Better Organizations But in More Committed Jews
By Ammiel HirschNatan Sharansky and Gil Troy are not the first to describe the challenges to the relationship between Israel and the diaspora, but in their Mosaic essay they have done so in a particularly lucid a...
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My Rabbinic Colleagues Were Wrong about Jerusalem
Two-thousand years later, and it’s still not the right time?