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Jewish law is clear: We must put religious and moral values ahead of military and tactical objectives

I am not a politician and I have no wish to become one. I am a rabbi, and the role of a rabbi is not to be a military tactician or a political...

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Rabbi Adam Zagoria-Moffet

I almost got my daughter kicked out of her Jewish preschool over a map of Israel

The moment that led to me being threatened with having my daughter booted out of her temple preschool for a social media status began the way every...

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Jay Deitcher

Two writers offer strikingly different views of the ‘state of the Jews’

Last Tuesday night, the author and podcaster Dan Senor told an enthusiastic crowd at New York’s 92nd Street Y that despite a rising tide of...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

We don’t know much about Leo XIV and the Jews. But he could be just the pope for us.

As a Chicagoan who teaches at Villanova University, it was surreal for me to watch the election of Cardinal Robert Francis Prevost as Pope Leo XIV...

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Ethan Schwartz

The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over?

Has David Denby written about an American Jewish golden age precisely at the moment it is ending? In his new book “Eminent Jews,” Denby celebrates...

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

Israel and those who love it are stuck in a hopeless present. Can we ever get back to the future?

I’ve always appreciated the present-tense quality of Yom Ha’atzmaut. Coming right after Yom HaZikaron, a day of remembering past losses, it is...

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Yehuda Kurtzer