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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…
 • Yasha Levine
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…
 • Yasha Levine
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…
 • Yasha Levine
The early Christians were messianic Jews
...and the power of the Hebrew Bible
 • Yasha Levine
Entry #10: The Rabbi
"The problem with the way that Judaism has evolved is that it has leaned too heavily on the exile…it allowed the rabbis of Europe to point the way. "
 • Yasha Levine
The Third Temple and the End of Judaism
We get out of bed to talk with Rachel Feldman about messianic zionism and the Temple Movement, which wants to end Judaism as we know it and replace it…
 • Yasha Levine and Evgenia
1:36:46
What You Should Know
8/4/23
 • Yasha Levine
"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.
 • Yasha Levine
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.
 • Yasha Levine
A Mysterious Source
I was on the couch in the dark watching Total Recall when my phone buzzed and a message popped up.
 • Yasha Levine
Skinny Boris
The old jewelry store that Skinny Boris used as his base of operations was on Geary and 20th Ave.
 • Yasha Levine
A boy from Belarus
A simple provincial Jew goes to the big city.
 • Yasha Levine
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