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Rekindling the romance in a love-lost marriage
I’m not sure when it happened or even when I realized it. But something had shifted. After 20 years, we both had changed so much. Everyone and everything does of course. Why would I expect that we’d...
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Co-opting intersectionality: how to beat BDS on campus
The drama continues at Oberlin College. Last month in The Jerusalem Post, I wrote about growing anti-Semitism and BDS support at my alma mater. Now, the Facebook group “Oberlin Students and Alumni...
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Rebranding Zionism (Zionism = Calendarism)
I interview people for a living. Many of the articles I write are for publications outside of Israel. For those conversations, I don’t usually identify myself as living in Jerusalem – I want the...
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Why I’m voting for Donald Trump
Yes, you read that right. It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally come around. Republican presidential contender Donald Trump has won me over. And come November, if he’s still in the race (and if this...
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The “aliyah premium” – how much more does it really cost to live in Israel?
It’s no secret that immigrants to Israel from North America take a financial hit. But as I finished up my U.S. taxes last month (as an Israeli with dual citizenship, I am required to file in both...
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“Trading down” – must aliyah always mean a career decline?
As I was researching The aliyah premium – how much more does it really cost to live in Israel?, I quickly realized that the only fair way to deal with the wide variances in individual earnings and tax...
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Israel: the new Jewish shtetl
Hebrew Union College Professor Steven M. Cohen published an essay last month with some startling conclusions about Jewish demography. Reviewing figures compiled by the Pew Research Center over the...
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Is “Foreign Language Learning Disability” real?
It was while visiting the doctor that I finally snapped. I had waited months to see a particular specialist. I needed some answers to an ongoing ailment – it was an important appointment. “Can we...
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The price of memory
“We found Mom. She’s safe.” That was the text message I received from my brother in California. It came out of the blue. We were at an open air concert in Rishon Lezion and I hadn’t read the news. So...
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What’s really happening on American college campuses today
“Get out.” That was the provocative headline of a 2019 article by Liel Leibovitz that appeared in Tablet Magazine. Leibovitz was responding to the increasingly hostile environment for Jewish students...
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