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Jews have long fought antisemitism in court. Is the law built for the fight?

Jews have long fought antisemitism in court. Is the law built for the fight?

When historian James Loeffler set out to write a history of antisemitism and free speech in America, he kept running into the same complaint from...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

An India-Israel corridor is the biggest Middle East story nobody is talking about

An India-Israel corridor is the biggest Middle East story nobody is talking about

About a month before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was unveiled at the G20 summit in New...

13.08.2026 3

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Dan Perry

Should Jews who support Israel avoid the word ‘Zionism’?

Should Jews who support Israel avoid the word ‘Zionism’?

A communications consultant was let go by the Jewish Federations of North America last week for saying something that a number of Jewish leaders and...

12.08.2026 0

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

I’m Korean and Jewish. The college essay forced me to confront how I’m seen — and how I want to be seen.

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...

07.08.2026 10

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Benjamin Waner

25 years ago, my daughter was killed in the Sbarro bombing. Why is her killer still free?

Losing our daughter Malki felt like a horror movie unfolding in real time. Aug. 9, 2001, was a school vacation morning in Jerusalem. I left early for...

06.08.2026 8

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Arnold Roth

A Maimonides statue in Córdoba was defaced. His writings have an answer to hate.

Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, July 31 into August 1, someone crept into the Plaza de Tiberíades in the old Jewish quarter of...

04.08.2026 10

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Rabbi Jeffrey K. Salkin

Zohran Mamdani has made it impossible for liberal Zionists like me to protest Netanyahu’s UN visit

Watching a train wreck in real time, while mesmerizing, is never fun. It can, however, be educational. By encouraging New Yorkers to protest against...

31.07.2026 10

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Menachem Z. Rosensaft

As Conservative rabbis, we can’t perform interfaith weddings. But we can bless the Jewish families they create.

As Conservative/Masorti rabbis, we see firsthand the joy of couples building a life together in the Jewish community, and the pain of those who feel...

29.07.2026 10

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Rabbi Pamela Barmash

Mamdani’s Netanyahu video fuels the debate over the meaning of antisemitism

In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their...

29.07.2026 10

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

This Jewish holiday of love isn’t just for couples. It’s for a fractured people.

When red hearts and pink chocolate boxes pop up in the middle of summer, it can take a moment to remember that you’re not somehow late for...

28.07.2026 10

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Samantha Vinokor-Meinrath

Words matter: It’s time for New Yorkers to reject Zohran Mamdani’s dangerous ‘genocide’ libel

Every generation tells itself the same story: We have learned the lessons of history. We are wiser than those who came before us. That could never...

27.07.2026 10

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William C. Daroff

Why no one worships Odysseus anymore — but Jews still live by the Tanakh

The release of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which brought in $264 million at the box office during its blockbuster opening...

26.07.2026 20

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Rabbi Benjamin Resnick

When antisemitic violence came to our synagogue’s doorstep, Tisha B’Av’s ‘narrow straits’ became frighteningly real

On Thursday, on Tisha B’Av, violence came frighteningly close to home to Congregation Rodeph Sholom, the synagogue I lead on Manhattan’s Upper...

24.07.2026 10

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Rabbi Benjamin Spratt

Hasan Piker is gaslighting American Jews. As a historian of antisemitism, I can tell.

When left-wing streamer Hasan Piker addressed the national convention of the College Democrats of America this past weekend, he wasn’t just...

24.07.2026 10

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Pamela S. Nadell

What Tisha B’Av taught me about the silencing — and creative defiance — of Jewish writers

From Mount Scopus, Rabbi Akiva, with three other sages, gazes down at the destroyed Second Temple. A fox, fulfilling Jeremiah’s dismal prophecy,...

22.07.2026 10

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William Kolbrener

I gathered the data on Jewish fiction publishing. The trends are alarming.

In early 2023, I wrote a novel that was Jewish in every possible way. The lovers called each other “ahuvati” and “neshama sheli” — Hebrew...

16.07.2026 10

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Meg Keene

American Jewish exceptionalism is ending. Here’s what must come next.

Growing up in Argentina, I found American exceptionalism and how it held up Jews as inextricable from the national fabric to be a source of both...

15.07.2026 20

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Andrés Spokoiny

As Christopher Nolan revives ‘The Odyssey,’ a scholar finds links between Homer and the Hebrew Bible

Even before its release on Friday, buzz over Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film adaptation, “The Odyssey,” is introducing a new...

15.07.2026 10

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

He led a unique learners’ service for more than 50 years. Now this rabbi is handing over the reins.

In 1975, Lincoln Square Synagogue on Manhattan’s Upper West Side had become the hottest ticket in town. And no ticket was required to attend...

12.07.2026 10

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Gary Rosenblatt

As two-state hopes fade, more Jews are open to a one-state future for the Middle East

For much of the modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the phrase “one-state solution” was a fringe idea, especially among Jewish...

12.07.2026 20

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Many young Jews support a binational state. That doesn’t mean they’re anti-Zionist.

There are three kinds of young Jews the headlines keep confusing: the anti-Zionist, the non-Zionist and the young Jew who loves being Jewish, shows...

10.07.2026 10

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Rabbi Seth Winberg

A New York Times map tells America’s immigration story. So where are the Jews?

“The City Without Jews” is the title shared by a 1922 satirical novel by Hugo Bettauer and a forthcoming history of Nazi Vienna by Douglas...

06.07.2026 20

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

This Fourth of July, I feel the heartache — and hope — of two homelands

It feels strangely appropriate that our family’s calendar has us celebrating July 4th in Israel and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, in...

03.07.2026 20

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Sara Labaton

As America turns 250, Jews shouldn’t mistake it for just another exile

Years ago, an Israeli colleague told me about the children’s book “Rivka’s First Thanksgiving.” Set in 1910, it tells the story of a...

03.07.2026 20

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Rabbi Ethan Tucker

The Supreme Court upheld birthright citizenship — but American Jews like me shouldn’t declare victory yet

When my grandfather fled Nazi Germany, he carried with him, across multiple borders, an unwavering faith that the future was waiting on the other...

02.07.2026 10

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Beth Oppenheim

What a new play gets right about ‘Birthright’ and our anguished Jewish conversation

After staffing 13 Birthright trips and sending more than 500 young Jews to Israel, I recently sat in a Manhattan theater and watched my professional...

30.06.2026 20

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Tori Greene

I served America in the fight against antisemitism. Here’s why that fight is at risk.

During the time I served as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the Obama administration, I traveled across Europe, Central Asia and...

29.06.2026 20

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Hannah Rosenthal

Why teens like me feel politically homeless in the debates over Israel

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...

26.06.2026 30

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Aaron Schwartz

The Mamdani effect: Democratic incumbents now have to worry about being too pro-Israel

A little more than a year ago, thousands showed up for the annual Paul Feig z”l Tikkun Leil Shavuot at the Marlene Meyerson JCC Manhattan, an...

24.06.2026 20

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Ami Eden

I helped sell Obama’s Iran deal. Its critics owe us all an explanation.

Neoconservatives have some ‘splainin’ to do, as Lucy’s television husband, Ricky Ricardo used to say. The war on Iran has turned out to be a...

23.06.2026 10

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Steve Rabinowitz

As a straight ally for LGBTQ Jews, I’ve learned that support has to be seen

Every June, rainbow flags appear, organizations post messages celebrating Pride Month and communities reaffirm their commitment to inclusion and...

23.06.2026 20

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Gila Romanoff

Rabbi Rolando Matalon’s retirement marks the end of an era for B’nai Jeshurun — and for liberal Judaism

Over 40 years, Rabbi Rolando Matalon helped turn B’nai Jeshurun into one of the most influential synagogues in American Jewish life. This month,...

21.06.2026 20

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Museums should return art created under coercion — whether in slavery or Auschwitz

Descendants of an enslaved Black artist are fighting to regain works of his that are being held by a number of museums. Among those rooting for their...

19.06.2026 20

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Rafael Medoff

Juneteenth reminds Jewish communities that belonging requires more than a declaration

As we mark Juneteenth, I am thinking about the difference between being declared free and being fully recognized. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865...

19.06.2026 20

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Yolanda Savage-Narva

I’ve spent a decade building acceptance for LGBTQ Orthodox Jews. Now I’m watching it unravel.

For the past decade, I have been working, along with my colleagues at Eshel, to increase the acceptance of LGBTQ individuals in the Orthodox Jewish...

17.06.2026 20

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Saundra Sterling Epstein

Want to ask Einstein about Zionism? A new AI tool lets users chat with Jewish history

I asked AI Sigmund Freud to interpret my dream this morning. All I got was some dancing dots, as if a) the great man had fallen asleep or b) my dream...

16.06.2026 30

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

What a 30-year-old fight over God can teach Reform Judaism about ordaining anti-Zionists

Twenty years ago this summer, I began writing my rabbinical thesis about a controversy that tested the boundaries of the Reform movement from 1991 to...

15.06.2026 20

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Rabbi Asher Knight

This rabbi made history in the civil rights era. I had to tell his story.

St. Augustine, Florida is a city of firsts. The oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in the United States is also the birthplace of our...

12.06.2026 20

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Roger Rapoport

A Jewish way to mark the 250th: A close reading of America’s ‘sacred’ texts

Fireworks, parades, maybe a mixed martial arts smackdown on the White House lawn? Those are a few of the ways Americans will be marking the...

07.06.2026 20

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

The Jewish Brigade fought fascism in Italy. Now its flags spark protests.

When the Jewish Brigade appears today in Italian public debate, it is rarely about the British Army unit, formed largely by Jewish volunteers from...

04.06.2026 20

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Gianluca fantoni

13 years after my arrest at the Kotel, the threat to egalitarian prayer there is growing

Thirteen years ago, on the morning of Rosh Chodesh Adar, I was detained at the Kotel. I had joined a group choosing to pray with the Women of the Wall...

03.06.2026 20

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Rabbi robyn fryer bodzin

Zohran Mamdani is normalizing antisemitism. New York’s Jews must boycott him.

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...

29.05.2026 30

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Rabbi Avi Weiss

Why Jews should show up and show Mamdani what we stand for

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...

29.05.2026 20

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Rabbi Yaacov Behrman

Jewish New York deserves a parade as diverse as its communities

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...

27.05.2026 30

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Rabbi Jill Jacobs

Cleveland-area Jews are about to lose an iconic mid-century synagogue building

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”...

27.05.2026 20

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Alanna E. Cooper

What Tuesday’s primaries tell us about Democrats, Republicans and the Israel issue

Reading the polls and listening to conservative podcasts, you would understandably think that Republicans are souring on Israel and poised to start...

20.05.2026 20

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Ami Eden

Israel can survive criticism. But can we survive silencing our moral responsibility in the face of moral inconsistency?

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...

15.05.2026 30

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Rabbi josh weinberg

I won’t hide my Judaism to belong to the punk scene I love

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...

12.05.2026 20

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Sara lim

I’m a Jewish teen. I asked my neighbors what they meant by ‘Free Palestine.’

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...

07.05.2026 30

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Asher gershenoff

Do Jews have a future in Europe? A historian of antisemitism has her doubts.

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...

07.05.2026 40

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Andrew Silow-Carroll