simmons | March 25, 2017
With characteristic poise, Rabbi David Wolpe turned to the three panelists onstage at Sinai Temple on a recent Wednesday evening, in front of a sellout crowd of some 250 people. Im going to start with a quick yes-or-no question, he began.
admin | March 25, 2017
Women and allies march during the International Womens Strike on March 8, 2017, in New York, New York. (Sipa USA via AP Images) Editors Note: Collier Meyersons interview with Linda Sarsour about Zionism and feminism, published last week at TheNation.com, generated a number of thoughtful letters from readers, as well as a response from Emily Shire, whose New York Times op-ed on the subject prompted Meyersons interview.
admin | March 25, 2017
The question is whether Zionism can make room for a trulyinclusive equality. Hundreds take part in a Womens March protest outside the U.S. embassy in Tel Aviv, January 21, 2017.
simmons | March 23, 2017
SWAMPSCOTT A community forum on Thursday will present plans for the affordable senior housing redevelopment of the shuttered Machon Elementary School. Town officials and Bnai Brith Housing, the developers, will present the draft schematic plans for the project to residents at 7 p.m.
simmons | March 23, 2017
Billy Clamp was held hostage in the Bnai Brith building in 1977. (Washington Blade archive photo by David Dahlquist) Billy Pat Clamp is one of 149 people taken hostage in three buildings in Washington, D.C.
admin | March 23, 2017
If a budget is a moral document, then the budget President Trump submitted to Congress last week is a testament to immorality of the highest order. The Jewish communitys response has been broadly critical.
admin | March 21, 2017
I am a card-carrying Zionist and a proud feminist, beliefs some critics apparently deem incompatible. Zionism is defined as a movement for the re-establishment and the development of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel. When Theodor Herzl started discussing Zionism in the 1880s, it was revolutionary.
simmons | March 21, 2017
A necessary and productive debate has been going on in US feminist circles following the International Womens Strike on March 8, with its openly anti-colonial, pro-Palestine platform. In an Op-Ed, writer Emily Shire questioned whether there was room for Zionists in the feminist movement, to which Linda Sarsour responded, in another OpEd, with a well-argued and highly-persuasive No.
admin | March 21, 2017
As the holiday of Pesach approaches, our last few essays have dealt with the vast difference between Jewish life in the exile and Jewish life in the Land of Israel, as the Jewish People rise from the dry bones of Galut to mega-powered nationhood in the Promised Land. The ideas we have presented are indeed very deep, requiring a penetrating understanding of Torah, which the great Sages of Israel have illuminated for us throughout history, reminding us that the Torah is far broader than the four cubits of halacha which exist in the exile
admin | March 19, 2017
Women who identify with Zionism are free to participate in the feminist protest movement.
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