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This Jewish artist fought Nazis with a paintbrush, when art like his still mattered 

I remember being freaked out, and fascinated, by my parents’ copy of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. It featured these especially lurid...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

What a Phish concert taught me about being a better rabbi

Last month, I saw the legendary jam band Phish as part of their annual four-night New Year’s Run at Madison Square Garden. I went as a fan of their...

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Rabbi Jonathan Leener

The Conservative movement eased its stance on intermarriage. Here’s why I am quitting its rabbis’ union anyway.

Legacy runs deep in Judaism, shaping both who we are and the choices we make.  For me, that legacy is embodied by my grandfather, Rabbi Alexander...

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Rabbi Ari Y. Saks

My liberal activist friends taught me how to be a Zionist in anti-Zionist spaces

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...

05.01.2026 2

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Calder Weiss

Here’s how I make each day count: I keep a diary

In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary. It seems I watched “No Country for Old Men” and had “anxiety over … board meeting.” I...

02.01.2026 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Irving Berlin’s 1926 interfaith marriage sparked a Jewish debate that, 100 years later, hasn’t gone away

Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 4, 1926, legendary American Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin married Ellin Mackay, a Roman Catholic heiress, in a...

02.01.2026 2

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Scott D. Seligman

Being both Jewish and Slavic in America hasn’t always been simple — but sharing stories and culture is helping me make sense of who I am

Being both Jewish and Slavic in America hasn’t always been simple — but sharing stories and culture is helping me make sense of who I am

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...

30.12.2025 3

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Vick Volovnyk

Why Jewish girls are missing in the discourse around Israel

When a Jewish girl in 12th grade stands up to discuss Israeli politics, she speaks with the same confidence level as a boy in 7th grade. What’s...

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Ilana M. Horwitz