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It’s time to fix tikkun olam

3 days ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Ari Berman

I like repairing the world as much as the next guy, but tikkun olam has taken on a life of its own, morphing into a pseudo-denomination of American Judaism. It is invoked in ubiquitous fashion, often without a deep understanding of its meaning and — in a less-than-ideal trend — virtually exclusively to signal a particular political perspective.
Campus isn’t Congress

3 days ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Daniel Friedman

Harvard University’s President Alan Garber recently acknowledged what many have long observed: there are very few conservative voices on his campus. While this admission may seem like a gesture toward balance, it misses the deeper problem. The crisis in academia isn’t about the ratio of progressives to conservatives. It’s about the erosion of the university’s core mission: the pursuit of truth through disciplined, open inquiry.
Daniel Friedman

3 days ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Daniel Friedman
Abe Foxman’s bleak assessment

1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer

We should have seen it coming, Abe Foxman said. Mr. Foxman of Bergen County is the longtime now-retired head of the Anti-Defamation League. As a child survivor of the Holocaust, he’s an even longer-time student of antisemitism (a position from which there is no retirement). He was talking about the murder last week of two young employees of the Israeli embassy, Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky; the pair was gunned down outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington.
‘Bad Shabbos,’ good guffaws

1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Curt Schleier

“Bad Shabbos” is one of the funniest, laugh-out-loud-est films since Mel Brooks picked up a camera. Period. If you don’t believe me, trust the folks who showed up at screenings at last year’s Tribeca Film Festival. They gave it the Audience Award, a prize based on the votes of attendees at every performance of every one of the 100-plus films accepted into the competition. At its simplest, “Bad Shabbos” is an old-fashioned farce. But it’s not all guffaws.
Matchmaking and global warming

1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Banji Ganchrow

The Greenhouse effect. Global warming. Melting ice caps. Fossil fuels. The generation that is destroying the environment. Honestly and apologetically, I don’t understand any of it. I have not done any research on it, and, well, again apologetically, I don’t get it. What I do get is that Memorial Day weekend used to be the kick-off to summer festivities. Lounging by someone else’s pool, mooching off someone else’s barbecue…apparently, it might not exactly have been the case this past weekend.
We’re still here

1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer

It’s a glorious spring. We just finished one of the most physically lovely (if unnaturally chilly) Memorial Day weekends in memory, and we’re heading to the intellectually heady, cheese-filled joys of Shavuot. But the murders of Sarah Milgrim and Yaron Lischinsky cast a huge pall over everything, in ways that are both personal and communal. To start with, on the personal side, the two were both young and attractive. They were in love, and about to get engaged. And then they were shot dead.
A calendar conundrum’s message

1 week ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Shammai Engelmayer

“The Torah is 3,340 years old. Its text has been studied and restudied ever since Moses received it and passed it on to us. It has nothing more to tell us, so why lose a whole night’s sleep on the first night of Shavuot studying it?”That sounds like a fair question, but it is not, and the best way to understand why is to study some Torah. So here goes: True or false? Shavuot begins at sundown this Sunday. True or false? Shavuot is the anniversary of the day that God gave us the Torah.
Israel’s Yuval Raphael comes in second at Eurovision

2 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Philissa Cramer

Israel’s Yuval Raphael defied expectations to come in second in the annual Eurovision song contest on Saturday, narrowly losing out to Austria after being buoyed by the popular vote but also drawing points from the juries in 14 countries. “Thank you, Europe! Am Yisrael chai!” Raphael shouted from the stage after her performance. Azerbaijan awarded Israel all 12 of the points its jury could give, in a departure from last year, when Israel did not win any country’s full jury points.
It all started with Pauline

2 weeks ago | njjewishnews.timesofisrael.com | Joanne Palmer

The Palisades aren’t particularly long, and when you compare them to other cliffs, they might not be particularly formidable. They’re very steep but run for only 20 or so miles and they aren’t attached to any mountains. But they’re stark, they’re dramatic, they overhang the Hudson, and in a way they gave birth to the American motion picture industry — which, as we all know, eventually decamped to Hollywood.