The Sit-Down Ideas Yosef Blau, author of an Orthodox rabbis’ letter calling out Israel, responds to his critics The longtime student adviser at Yeshiva University says Israel, and Orthodoxy, are strengthened by dissenting voices.
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The Sit-Down Ideas Ana Levy-Lyons, a former Unitarian Universalist minister and future rabbi, wants to cure what ails the secular left Her new book argues that “nones” have liberalized themselves out of meaning and connection.
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The Sit-Down What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests