Marmur: Zionizing the Reform movement
“The wholesome presence and impact of Reform Judaism in the Jewish state is an important factor in the movement’s Zionizing process throughout the world.”
Troy: Prayers echoing in the heavens
“As the congregation prayed and as I considered how few of us nowadays are blessed with the opportunity to voice lyrics of spiritual beauty rather than raucous vulgarity at the top of our lungs. I wanted his prayer – our prayers – to resonate worldwide.”
Troy: Examining the three phases of Zionism
Ours is the era of Zionist ideas – a big, broad, rollicking conversation from right to left, including young and old, religious and non-religious. This old-new conversation will hone identity Zionism, wherein all of us, in Israel and the Diaspora, don’t just ask “how do I help Israel,” but wonder: “how does having a Jewish state help me?”
The new face of Judaism
Kay discusses five thought provoking ideas on the Jewish state, the people in Israel and the Diaspora.
A religious Zionist’s quandary: is this land only our land?
Even if the Land of Israel is promised to the Jewish People, this does not permit us to ignore existing non-Jewish communities.
Diaspora Jews are turning away from Israel. But why now?
The “red line” for many Jews has traditionally been that, while we vehemently disagree on how to move forward, we’ll never withhold our support. That’s what’s changed.
Despite growing rupture, Diaspora jews and Israelis one family
The headlines are filled with the news of the growing rupture between Israel and the Diaspora. But in Jerusalem this summer, the streets are filled with record numbers of Diaspora Jews.
Province, city, quibble over Al-Quds day rally responsibility
The annual Al-Quds Day rally in Toronto called for the deaths of Israelis, denied the Holocaust, praised terrorism and referred to Jews as inhuman. This year, it also raised mundane questions regarding permits and jurisdictions.
Gunder-Goshen novel rouses latent ‘periphery complex’
Waking Lions centres around Dr. Eitan Green, a talented, young neurosurgeon, who like many in Israel, still thinks of himself as living on the outside.
Your daily spiel for Tuesday, March 14
In today’s spiel: European companies could ban religious wear, Linda Sarsour says Zionism and feminism are incompatible and a swinging chassidic couple on Tinder.
