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Biblical War, Chabad style
I’ve been back on my anti-rabbi duties doing research and writing new chapters for Two Pigeons when I came across this…a brief statement by a celebrity…
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The weird world of Chabad, an influential Hasidic sect that’s been taking America (and Israel) by storm
Chabad represents the cutting edge of Zionist Jewish life in America — a movement that draws disillusioned Jews from progressive and liberal corners of…
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Day 19: Check me out on Filmsuck as we tear into the new Netflix hit “Unorthodox”
If this show was made in the 1990s, when American consumerist liberalism still seemed to hold some promise, maybe it would’a worked better. Now it’s…
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The early Christians were messianic Jews
A quick anti-rabbi thought here…
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The Third Temple and the End of Judaism
Listen now (97 mins) | We get out of bed to talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we…
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Evgenia
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Entry #10: The Rabbi
The tale of Two Pigeons continues.
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What You Should Know
8/4/23
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"Clearly and firmly anti-Zionism is antisemitism”
The House of Reps entered an intra-Jewish debate about what it means to be Jewish and crudely put its weight on the scale.
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A Letter to My Fellow Jewish Americans
Last week a young man killed two employees of the Israeli embassy outside a Jewish museum in Washington DC.
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A Mysterious Source
I was on the couch in the dark watching Total Recall when my phone buzzed and a message popped up.
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A boy from Belarus
A simple provincial Jew goes to the big city.
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