Avi Weiss / JNS.org

Avi Weiss is the founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale in New York City. His most recent book, “Open Up the Iron Door: Memoirs of a Soviet Jewry Activist,” was recently published by Toby Press.

ARTICLES BY: Avi Weiss / JNS.org

November 24, 2023 1:59 pm

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Thoughts and Observations as the War Continues

JNS.org - It has been a great zechut (“merit”) to be in Israel these months during “Operation Swords of Iron.” Yes, a zechut, as part of the dream...

April 19, 2019 10:16 am

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Setting Aside a Matzah for Israel’s Remaining Missing Soldiers

JNS.org - Standing among thousands at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, I felt that an important piece of my life was coming full-circle....

September 21, 2015 6:17 am

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Kol Nidre and the White Fire of the Iran-Deal Discourse

JNS.org - The High Holidays are here, reaching their crescendo with Yom Kippur’s Kol Nidre prayer, made famous by Al Jolson and Neil Diamond in “The Jazz...