Eli Kavon

Eli Kavon is a rabbi, writer, and teacher living in Sunrise, Florida

 OSWIECIM, POLAND - APRIL 16, 2015: International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Confronting the complex realities of Polish-Jewish identity - opinion

Mental health first aid, illustrative

The Hebrew month of Elul should be a period of healing - opinion

 Ultra Orthodox Jews walking next to a Pashkevil on the IDF draft law in the ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, March 15, 2024.

What Rambam can teach us about the draft law crisis - opinion


Academia is being corrupted by anti-Israel student mobs and colleges aren't doing enough - opinion

So, American Jews, what is important to you? Your sheepskin displayed prominently on your apartment wall or the foreskin removed on the eighth day as a people’s covenant?

 PRO-HAMAS posters on campus.

A historic Iraqi city connects between past and future in a divided Middle East - opinion

The Battle of Karbala is not only history but a haunting reality. A marriage of medieval theology with Iran's attempt to produce nuclear weapons should alarm all people and leaders of the free world

 SHI’ITE MUSLIM pilgrims take part in a ceremony, marking the ritual of Arbaeen, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, in September.

Does the Torah have multiple authors? - opinion

In the modern epoch, academic study of the Hebrew Bible attributes conflicting texts in the Torah to different human sources.

Torah scroll 521

Soviet Jewry's unsung heroes - opinion

Rabbi Jonathan Porath is well-known within his activist and conservative circles. For most of us, however, he is an unsung hero of the movement to liberate Soviet Jewry.

 JEWS IMMIGRATING from the former Soviet Union, 1990.

What is the myth of the ‘circumcised Cossack?' - opinion

While journalist Anton La Guardia’s flawed thesis is that the State of Israel is a modern version of ancient Sparta – totally dominated by the military – we need to ask about Amos Oz’s observation.

COSSACK MAMAY – the ideal image of Cossack in Ukrainian folklore.

All of Jewish history deserves to be studied - opinion

A reviewer and an audience should take into account the whole production. All roads did not lead to Auschwitz.

 The "Mernepteh/Israel" Stele, at the Egyptian Museum, 2022.

Who is lonely? The Jew struggling with doubt - opinion

The writer discusses two Jewish atheists: An Israeli who refused to enter a synagogue and a US veteran who liberated Dachau.

 A Star of David.

Why didn't 'The New York Times' report on the Holocaust? - opinion

“All the News That’s Fit to Print.” Since 1897, this has adorned the masthead of The New York Times. It just seems that, in the paper of record’s long history, some news was “Not Fit to Print.”

 THE NEW YORK Times building in Manhattan.

The long journey from Kyiv to California - opinion

Succumbing to international pressure the Soviet authorities granted over two hundred thousand Jews permission to leave the country with Israeli visas.

 Kyiv after Russian drone attack, 2022

Otto Frank and Anne’s Jewish legacy - opinion

Although Anne’s diary was written while the family was hiding in the secret annex of her Amsterdam home her bereaved father was to downplay the Jewish aspects of the story.

 FORMER GERMAN chancellor Angela Merkel and Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte visit the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam, last year.