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Columnists / Dispatch from the Homeland

Particularism & universalism: Outlook divides us

I’ve lived my life between the two largest Jewish communities of our time, those of Israel and the United States. And over the past several decades, drastically different levels of…

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September 18, 2019
Columnists / Dispatch from the Homeland

Sectarian conflict requires constitutional amendment

By Matan Rudner While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is disproportionately covered by Western media outlets, Americans are far less acquainted with the nonviolent, internal conflicts between opposing social groups in Israel.…

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August 7, 2019
Dispatch from the Homeland

A July 4th reflection: the American in me

By Matan Rudner I have a complicated relationship with America. It’s the place where I was born and raised, where as an impressionable youth I first began to understand the…

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July 3, 2019
Dispatch from the Homeland

State of Israel belongs in the Middle East

By Matan Rudner In the seven decades since the establishment of the third Jewish commonwealth, we have revived our language, made the desert bloom, and ingathered the exiles of our…

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May 9, 2019
Columnists / Dispatch from the Homeland

Service, not simplification, the key to Judaism

By Matan Rudner Amid a rapidly changing world, the Jewish community, like all communities of faith, is trying its hardest to preserve its heritage, and pass it on to the…

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April 4, 2019
Dispatch from the Homeland

Judaism is more than just a religion

Throughout millennia of our existence, we’ve transformed from family to tribe, and from people to nation. For thousands of years, we’ve retained a distinctly Jewish ethnicity, culture and system of…

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February 28, 2019
Columnists / Dispatch from the Homeland

My upbringing told me I belong in Israel

It’s been a year and a half since my aliyah to Israel, and I’d like to make some things clear. I didn’t leave Dallas, the city where I was born…

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January 24, 2019
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