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EST 1917

New York

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Not so long ago, I felt my first stirrings of tallis envy. It struck me not as a deep-seated jealousy, but more as a growing curiosity, a desire to learn more. Then, just a day or so after I’d begun to imagine what it might feel like to drape that silky fabric around my shoulders, […]

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The odds were not in their favor. It is highly unlikely that two old friends would just bump into each other on a subway platform in Manhattan. Nine years after their friendship began at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Noah Borenstein and Amy Heller reconnected at the 86th Street subway station, when they both got […]

It was the generational divide in the Jewish community laid bare. On one side of the canyon was Malcolm Hoenlein, the 68-year-old executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations, the consummate Jewish establishment figure. On the other was Yehuda Kurtzer, the 36-year-old president of the Shalom Hartman Institute of […]

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