Just look at this woman's magnificent courage!  She believes with all her heart in what she is doing.  And to my mind, she is speaking not to the reality of what Israel is, but the effulgent reality of what Judaism and Jewishness are, and ...

To start with, Steven I. Weiss uses a quote I have heard translated differently by Rabbi friends of mine.  'Justice, Justice shall you pursue', in this other translation, becomes 'Seek justice, and pursue it'.  I like the second translation ...

 I have to say, seeing this makes me sad.  The only relief I feel is that it is obviously one 'actress' promoting the prospects for her career -- I think it would have been morally crushing to see a calendar of, say, 12 Jewish women 'baring ...