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- An essay from Etgar Keret;
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Me, before Passover when I can't get the fire started:
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RT @worrystonee
someone very mysteriously dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in old bridge, nj …… i need to know everything
https://twitter.com/worrystonee/status/1653513196915884034
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RT @worrystonee
someone very mysteriously dumped 3-400 pounds of pasta in the woods in old bridge, nj …… i need to know everything
https://twitter.com/worrystonee/status/1653513196915884034
Like many queer Orthodox Jews, 25-year-old Herschel Siegel struggled with teachings that paint LGBTQ identity as an ‘abomination,’ Mordechai Levovitz writes in a new opinion for the Forward.
The Forward's @ArnoRosenfeld visited Hawara on a trip arranged by @btselem, an Israeli human rights organization, who also translated most interviews from Arabic to English.
“I don’t think they will come and throw us out,” said Abu Assad said, who runs the Howwara Country resort complex.
“But they’re encouraging the settlers to attack, and do what they want, so that we leave on our own.”
They also expect a road, now under construction by the Israeli government, that will bypass their town and could spell the end for businesses which rely on customers rolling past the commercial strip.
Residents of the Palestinian village say they hope to return to more peaceful times, although many anticipate a bleaker future — and not only because they expect more violence.
At Ziyad Abdullah’s auto parts store, customers can purchase a truck battery for $30 that would cost $100 in Jerusalem.
But Abdullah, who opened the shop 30 years ago, said his business tanked after the February riot in Hawara, where hundreds of Israelis burned parts of town. 🧵
Today is 53 years since the #KentState shootings.
In 2020, Benjamin Ivry asked: what should the Jewish response be today to what was, in some ways, a Jewish tragedy?
Researchers around the world are working on new reproductive technologies that are straight out of science fiction.
But a leading bioethicist believes the question of whether Jews should make use of them is complicated.