Talmud of America
My recent posts..."Talmud of America" Pardes Institute, a non-denominational study center based in Jerusalem, offers immersive Jewish learning around the world. One project is “Talmud of America,” which aims to illuminate and interpret, through Jewish eyes, some...
Twilight Zone
My recent posts...Twilight Zone בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת Bein hashemashot, literally, between the suns. בֵּין הַשְׁמָשׁוֹת A twilight zone of time, or rather, out of time, between one day and the next. Our sages of old used this concept to explain certain miraculous...
When to Pray Yizkor
My recent posts...My edited comments from this past final day of Pesach. Ellie’s mom, Julia Helfman, died on her 95th birthday, December 24, 2025. This was the first Yizkor service Ellie feels obligated to attend. She said, “I’m now a member of a club I was not eager...
Timing
It had become a Kremer household Pesach tradition, or rather, a pre-Pesach tradition. Somewhere within a couple of days prior the first seder and noon on erev Pesach, something would go awry in the kitchen.
Free Palestine
“Free Palestine”
To the Editor:
The keys to a state of Palestine — without preconditions, negotiations or genuine expectations — are being handed to a putative leader who is in the 21st year of the four-year term to which he was elected. Is this the reward for his having spent the last two decades building democratic institutions, holding fair elections, addressing corruption, improving universities and industries, advocating for non-biased education at all levels, establishing trade with neighbors, expanding the role of women in society, and other indications of the capability to build a state?
Now we know another meaning of a “Free Palestine!”
(Rabbi) Jonathan Kremer
Ventnor NJ
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