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Avi Weiss

Avi Weiss is founding rabbi of the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale and founder of Yeshivat Chovevei Torah and Yeshivat Maharat rabbinical schools. A longtime activist for Jewish causes and human rights, he wrote the extensive article “The Shameful Cover-Up Of The Worst Attack On Diaspora Jews Since The Holocaust“ published by Mosaic Magazine in 2019.

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    Uncover the Blood in Buenos Aires

    Argentina must remove the piles of deceit and do justice to the memory of the dead

    byAvi Weiss
  • A child watches the press conference at North Station for the Face Jewish Hate campaign to raise public awareness against an alarming rise in antisemitism.
    A child watches the press conference at North Station for the Face Jewish Hate campaign to raise public awareness against an alarming rise in antisemitism.
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    The National Antisemitism Strategy Has No Clothes

    Eradicating the world’s oldest hatred requires more than nice words and wishful thinking

    byAvi WeissandEitan Fischberger
  • Detail, Aert van der Neer, 'The Farrier,' early or mid-1650s
    Detail, Aert van der Neer, 'The Farrier,' early or mid-1650s
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    Points of Light

    Can anything push away the darkness of the coronavirus?

    byAvi Weiss
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    Defining ‘Open Orthodoxy’

    What a shift in focus—from obsessing over boundaries to creating welcoming spaces—could mean for our future

    byAvi Weiss
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