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What Philip Roth taught me about my life as a Jewish man, despite his own imperfections

Sometime in 2011 or 2012, racing in a cab to pick up my kids from school, I passed Philip Roth on the corner of West 79th Street and Central Park...

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The Jewish Week

Stephen Daniel Arnoff

How a teen found a Jewish community he could call his own

How a teen found a Jewish community he could call his own

This article was produced as part of JTA’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around the world to report on issues...

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The Jewish Week

Isaiah Davidson

I planned the first Guinness record-breaking Shabbat dinner. I promise I’m not too bitter about being beaten.

Here’s me not feeling even remotely bitter that the Guinness World Record for the largest Shabbat dinner — the one my friends and I set in Tel...

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The Jewish Week

Deborah Danan

This Thanksgiving, our Jewish gratitude begins with acknowledging the land beneath our feet

This Thanksgiving, our Jewish gratitude begins with acknowledging the land beneath our feet

When my husband Anthony and I arrived this summer in San Diego, where I now serve Congregation Dor Hadash, we didn’t yet have a place to live....

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The Jewish Week

Rabbi Mike Rothbaum

Thanksgiving needs its own haggadah

Thanksgiving needs its own haggadah

This Thanksgiving, I’m thinking about Passover — and how the way we choose to remember the past can shape the present and the future. I grew up in...

25.11.2025 8

The Jewish Week

Deborah Barer

They had status, safety and power — and still chose to defy Hitler

They had status, safety and power — and still chose to defy Hitler

Jonathan Freedland didn’t set out to write a guidebook to resistance. He was researching the story of Rudolf Vrba, the young Jewish escapee from...

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The Jewish Week

Andrew Silow-Carroll