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We Dare Not Be Silent

Yoffie.jpgRabbi Eric Yoffie is the President of the Union for Reform Judaism. This piece originally appeared in Reform Judaism magazine.

When the history of Reform Judaism is written a century from now, its authors will ask many questions: Did Reform Jews study Torah,

Galilee Diary: Rainy day

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein
Moving from the Midwest to the Mideast involved looking at rainy days in a new way. It took me a number of years to internalize the concept that rainy days are not an inconvenience, but rather a blessing.

IRAC & Attorney General Take On Haredi Jerusalem

One of the first Hebrew words immigrants to Israel learn is savlanut - patience. They'll need it; it's a word they won't easily forget. But it will take them some time longer to understand its root, sevel, as the source of all Hebrew words for suffering.

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Galilee Diary: Values collide

Rabbi Marc J. Rosenstein

We hold that the State of Israel was not permitted, by law, to allocate State land to the Jewish Agency for the purpose of establishing the communal settlement of Katzir on the basis of discrimination between Jews and non-Jews.
-Israel Supreme Court decision,