Faith and Practice
Tefillah at the Kotel
On Rosh Hodesh Tevet I returned again to the Kotel, where I had worshipped with Women of the Wall for fifteen years. And again, I found myself spat on by haredi men.
News and Politics
A Most Unlikely Source of Hope
It was about as likely as Daniel Pipes converting to Islam, and taking up residence in Gaza. Under intense US pressure, Benjamin Netanyahu, it appears, is throwing his weight behind the two-state solution. The source of this revelation: Steven Rosen, the controversial ex-AIPAC staffer, indicted for espionage by the Justice Department.
Arts and Culture
Everything is Local: Benny Torati's Desperado Square
Israeli film may seem more “Israeli” than ever. However, Israeli directors look as much abroad for their inspiration as they do at home. As unsurprising as that sounds, the cultural tourism of the exercise is worth the price of admission alone. Especially if you have an ethnic conception of Israelis.
Life and Action
Angetevka: Festooned Felicities
A Jew at Christmas is like a gay prom date: there’s a lot of denial
Arts and Culture
Fiction: The Engines of Sodom
Skinhead then straightedge, a young hardcore fan makes his way through Toronto’s punk scene in order to come to terms with his family’s ties to the Holocaust.
Arts and Culture
Personal Best: The Decade in Music
An idiosyncratic list of the past decade’s best albums – scroll to the end of the piece – with meditations on why idiosyncrasy may be all music criticism has left to offer.
Life and Action
View from Galilee: Why a Woman of the Wall Joined a Kibbutz
I am a rabbi. My smicha is from an Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem. I am also a member of Women of the Wall, and on the board of Rabbis for Human Rights. So why did I decide, last year, to pick up my family, leave Jerusalem, and move to a kibbutz?
Faith and Practice
Finding God at the Rock Bottom
New Zeek Columnist Aryeh Ben David finds God when he hits rock bottom and learns to embrace helplessness as humanity’s existential state.
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