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Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin

Shmuel Klatzkin is a rabbi who previously served as senior editor at the Rohr Jewish Learning Institute. He received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and writes and teaches extensively.
by | Oct 25, 2023

Decolonization! A battle cry so powerful that, under its sway, mass rape, execution of families in their homes, and mass…

by | Oct 21, 2023

Last week, you read here a crucial excerpt from Hamas’s 1987 charter which set out its belief that its enemy…

by | Oct 19, 2023

When the Gaza hospital story first appeared, mainstream media outlets reported it in the same way as did the New…

by | Oct 14, 2023

Cheap and clichéd politicking relies on sloppy associations. Can’t explain yourself or you think the voters are idiots? Just call…

by | Oct 7, 2023

As political philosophers of antiquity and of the Middle Ages remind us, the public life of the polis — politics…

by | Sep 30, 2023

Some time during the course of Yom Kippur this last Monday, it sank in to me that it was fifty…

by | Sep 23, 2023

Kidnapping is an old and ugly crime. Jewish tradition asserts that the commandment “Thou shalt not steal” is really about…

by | Sep 16, 2023

Judgment doesn’t have such a good rap. Calling someone “judgmental” today has the feel that calling someone a heretic had…

by | Sep 9, 2023

Instant Karma’s gonna get ya!  Maybe not so instant, but close enough. Two items popped up towards the end of…

by | Sep 2, 2023

For some time, people have hinted darkly that we are at the brink of civil war. That seems like hyperbole…

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