We open this issue of Chidusz with an article about new Jewish religious practices to comfort women, who have had abortion. We also share strong opinions of the outstanding Jewish architect Michael Sorkin z”l about the bombing of the Gaza Strip. We write about not-so-obvious gender of biblical Rebecca (Torah describes her as a “young man” as many as five times); and animal cruelty prohibition (according to rabbinic sources). Furthermore: Macho or Mentsch (or: Trump or Biden?); the next chapter of Der Shvartser Yunger-mantshik by Jacob Dinezon (in translation from Yiddish by Magdalena Wójcik); Adam Puławski’s Inconvenient Arguments (Holocaust reports of the Polish underground).
