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At the recent 2026 Atlanta Summit for Black Pastors and Rabbis, I joined 100 rabbis, Black American clergy, Black Jewish leaders, scholars, activists...
This essay originally appeared in Kveller. The miracle of Hanukkah came early this year: Hanukkah Barbie is here. Mattel would like us to call her...
Running a major nonprofit is difficult. Raising money, managing employees, overseeing complex operations and answering to a board and a myriad of...
A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary “TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets,” four different students...
On the third anniversary of the devastating Oct. 7 terror attack, it is a moment to remember the terrible human cost of that day – and to consider...
Within weeks of Oct. 7, 2023, a group of psychologists mobilized to respond to the fear, pain and invalidation experienced by Diaspora Jews. There...
Three years ago this week, the massacre of Oct. 7 accelerated a reckoning in Jewish education that had already been building for a long time. In...
The trouble, if that’s the word, began with a text from Havana: “I met someone!” My son, Ben, was 26 and on his third trip to Cuba. He was there...
For generations of American Jews, The New York Times has been more than a newspaper. It has been the hometown paper of the largest Jewish community...
Growing up, Yizkor was the time during services when my mom would bustle us out of the sanctuary of our suburban Arizona synagogue, lest we tempt the...
At breakfast in Queens, New York, before my first day of school in America, my parents spoke in hushed, urgent voices, as if planning a heist. I was...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — It’s a common sight in American synagogues: A kid stands at the bima to read their b’nai...
The student choir stands harmonizing beneath a glowing wooden cross suspended above the stage, their voices blending together as the lyrics glow...
In the shadow-filled days that followed Oct. 7, 2023, few things were as clear as the solemn understanding that what was cannot be again, and that...
I am a life-long surfer but I’ve never been much of a surf traveler. The search for the perfect wave has long been embedded in surfing culture, but...
For many Jews, the High Holidays are an annual encounter with a question they spend much of the rest of the year avoiding: Why have a religious life...
Leave it to Paul Reichenbach to leave this world on the morning of the second day of Rosh Hashanah — with its Torah portion telling Abraham that it...
We live in the age of the strategic apology. A politician apologizes days before an election when an opponent surfaces uncomfortable dirt. A CEO...
On Rosh Hashanah morning, a rabbi stands in front of you, in front of God, having spent weeks preparing for this exact moment, praying that they can...
In keeping with Jewish tradition and the directive of Proverbs 24:17, I do not rejoice at the death of Ratko Mladić. I do, however, take profound...
In a lifetime of theater-going I have never heard the word “historiography” on stage. But that is exactly what the Tony-Award winning playwright...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Watching a train wreck in real time, while mesmerizing, is never fun. It can, however, be educational. By encouraging New Yorkers to protest against...
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...
In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their...
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...
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...
The release of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which brought in $264 million at the box office during its blockbuster opening...
On Thursday, on Tisha B’Av, violence came frighteningly close to home to Congregation Rodeph Sholom, the synagogue I lead on Manhattan’s Upper...
When left-wing streamer Hasan Piker addressed the national convention of the College Democrats of America this past weekend, he wasn’t just...
From Mount Scopus, Rabbi Akiva, with three other sages, gazes down at the destroyed Second Temple. A fox, fulfilling Jeremiah’s dismal prophecy,...
In early 2023, I wrote a novel that was Jewish in every possible way. The lovers called each other “ahuvati” and “neshama sheli” — Hebrew...
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...
Even before its release on Friday, buzz over Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated film adaptation, “The Odyssey,” is introducing a new...
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...
For much of the modern history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the phrase “one-state solution” was a fringe idea, especially among Jewish...
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...
“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...
It feels strangely appropriate that our family’s calendar has us celebrating July 4th in Israel and Yom Ha’atzmaut, Israeli Independence Day, in...
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...
When my grandfather fled Nazi Germany, he carried with him, across multiple borders, an unwavering faith that the future was waiting on the other...
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...
During the time I served as Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism in the Obama administration, I traveled across Europe, Central Asia and...
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...
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...
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