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Click here for another perspective on how the Jewish community should relate to the mayor of New York. The time has come for the Jewish community in...
Click here for another perspective on how the Jewish community should relate to the mayor of New York.. I recently attended Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s...
The annual Israel Day on Fifth Parade is almost upon us, as are the annual arguments about it. This year, many Jews are furious that Mayor Mamdani...
Every time I drive down Fairmount Boulevard near my home in Beachwood, Ohio, I scan the horizon for the distinct lines of the “Fairmount Temple”...
Reading the polls and listening to conservative podcasts, you would understandably think that Republicans are souring on Israel and poised to start...
A dangerous instinct is on the rise in the Jewish world right now: the belief that we must choose between defending Israel and defending moral...
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...
This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York...
Over the last two months, there have been more than a dozen attacks on Jewish institutions across Europe. Two of the highest-profile attacks were in...
“Rabbi Greyber, you can’t hide — we charge you with genocide.” Those were the words shouted at me in front of Hebrew school students outside...
When I learned that Holocaust deniers had infiltrated a New Hampshire legislative meeting and tried to insert their view into the state’s Holocaust...
This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York...
In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Published in 1971, the...
My inbox recently broadcast a remarkable juxtaposition: “Jewish American Heritage Month is coming!” some messages told me. Others focused on...
The Bible is back in the news. In a Pentagon prayer service on April 15, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth quoted what was seemingly meant to be a verse...
Matzah is not something I typically give much thought to in the days following Passover. Yet I cannot stop thinking about a piece of shmura matzah I...
“I’m tired of debating the encampments,” said one student as others nodded. Here I was, a fly on the wall, during an open-space dialogue about...
We were used to a pretty steady stream of calls, texts, and emails reporting things like a swastika on a bathroom floor, a Jewish student being...
Psalm 127 begins this way: “A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless God builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” It’s an idea that has...
We are two Australians in our 30s, and if you asked us what most shaped the way we love and understand Israel, we would both give the same slightly...
At a time when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feels perhaps farther than ever from a solution, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are offering something...
LOS ANGELES — When I boarded a plane to Israel with students from de Toledo High School in February, I knew the trip would carry unusual weight....
This Holocaust Remembrance Day marks nearly 81 years since the end of World War II. Few living witnesses remain, whether Holocaust survivors or...
The formulaic question we should be adapting from the Passover seder and asking ourselves as we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust this year is,...
It has been a month since March 12 and there is a story unfolding at Temple Israel that most people would not be aware of. It’s not the headlines or...
I do not typically sign public rabbinic statements. I rarely agree with every word of a collective letter, and signing one can shift the focus from...
Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, “comes closer than any other movement or school of...
WARSAW — As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour...
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...
It is a lonely time to be a North American Jew. The last two years have seen frayed relationships with allies, intergenerational discord around...
In 2010, I said something I thought was unremarkable — that the government of Israel’s actions directly affect me as a Jew living in London....
Over the past year, decisions by the Trump administration have introduced a new level of instability into American life. New international tariffs...
As the parent of a high-school junior and someone who has worked with Jewish college students almost my entire career, nearly all the conversations I...
For more than a decade, I have watched and lived the unfolding story of women’s religious leadership in Orthodoxy. As the first woman ordained to...
This article was produced as part of the New York Jewish Week’s Teen Journalism Fellowship, a program that works with Jewish teens around New York...
More than five months after a ceasefire in the Israel-Hamas war, a highly contentious legal proceeding arising out of that military conflict remains a...
As the executive director of a synagogue, I read the daily security briefs from Secure Community Network and engage in regular security updates with...
I was sitting in economics class at my Jewish day school on Long Island on Thursday afternoon when the breaking news alert hit my inbox. The email,...
At a time when American democracy faces real threats, many mainstream Jewish leaders are struggling to find public footing. Some leaders have spoken...
On a Saturday in January I went to Shabbat services in the morning and the New York City Ballet in the evening. By which I mean, maybe Timothée...
During my early years of cantorial school, I noticed a significant gap in my studies. While the coursework included extensive classes on biblical...
When J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, met last weekend in Washington for its annual policy conference, it had to scramble to adjust to a joint...
After the actress Catherine O’Hara died, I decided to revisit some of her most vaunted performances, in comedies written by Christopher Guest. There...
“I’m not doing this!” the mother screamed. “Tell everyone they can go home — I won’t hold my baby’s Bris while rockets are on the...
It wasn’t always this way. As I watch the war unfold with trepidation and hope for the land where the Purim story takes place, I keep thinking about...
Around me, I see many Jews using the timing in the Jewish calendar to understand the current U.S.-Israel war against Iran in biblical terms. We are...
I have spent much of my life living in, traveling to, and learning about Israel. Like many who care deeply about the Jewish state, I hold strong views...
Days after the Super Bowl, I am still reeling from how a moment designed to confront antisemitism — a 30-second ad from Robert Kraft’s Blue Square...
I was on my way to pick up my daughters from school when it happened. In the middle of the main street, in broad daylight, a young man on a motorcycle...
The usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust...
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