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The death of Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine closes a chapter in Jewish history

(New York Jewish Week) — My son is in town from California for Passover, and on Tuesday night he treated the rest of the family to a Mets game. ...

18.04.2024 6

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 How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy till this day

(JTA) — In May 1924, President Calvin Coolidge signed legislation, known as the Johnson-Reed Act, that severely restricted the number of immigrants...

07.04.2024 20

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Growing up Jewish on the Upper West Side ‘when housing was a human right’

(New York Jewish Week) — When Jennifer Baum’s parents bought their three-bedroom, postwar apartment on the Upper West Side in 1967, they paid...

31.03.2024 5

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Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice

(JTA) — More than two decades ago Rabbi Shai Held was lecturing to a class of  fifth-year rabbinical students when he remarked in passing,...

24.03.2024 30

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How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

(JTA) — In Jerusalem’s rapidly gentrifying Musrara neighborhood, there’s a street sign reading “Black Panthers Way.”  Puzzled Americans...

17.03.2024 7

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Why an Israeli policy expert says talk of a two-state solution is dangerously premature

(JTA) — Whether it succeeds in its goal of destroying Hamas, or just deals it a devastating blow, it seems certain that following its war in Gaza,...

07.03.2024 3

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While pro-Palestinian supporters glorify a suicide, a ballot box protest gets results

(JTA) — Last week saw two wildly contrasting acts of pro-Palestinian protest: a U.S. airman who died after he set himself on fire in front of the...

03.03.2024 6

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Everybody’s talking about anti-Zionism

(JTA) — On Thursday afternoon, hundreds of marchers gathered on New York’s East Side, waving signs reading “Dump AIPAC” and carrying posters...

25.02.2024 10

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Why one Israeli security veteran hasn’t given up on a two-state solution 

(JTA) — When I reached Nimrod Novik in Raanana, Israel and asked how he was feeling, he was blunt. “Bad,” said Novik, 77, who was a senior...

18.02.2024 7

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How ‘ceasefire’ became a dirty word, even to some progressive groups

(JTA) — Late last month, Jacob Frey, the Jewish mayor of Minneapolis, vetoed his city council’s resolution endorsing a ceasefire in the...

11.02.2024 10

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In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?

(JTA) — At some point during my reading of Zachary Solomon’s debut novel, “A Brutal Design,” I needed to look up Duma, the utopian city-state...

04.02.2024 30

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When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

(JTA) — In the four months since the Hamas attacks on Israel touched off war in Gaza, Jewish protesters have joined demonstrations in the streets of...

28.01.2024 20

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The best Jewish books I read in 2023

(JTA) — When I spoke with novelist Elizabeth Graver in August about her novel “Kantika” — inspired by her own Turkish Jewish family — I...

31.12.2023 9

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What is antisemitism? At a Jewish studies conference, scholars use the archives as a guide — and a warning

SAN FRANCISCO (JTA) — Did a New York City coffee shop’s workers quit over the owner’s pro-Israel stance? Was the library at Cooper Union...

21.12.2023 2

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Among Jewish Americans, a ‘quiet middle’ has growing qualms over the war in Gaza 

(JTA) — Rabbi Yael Ridberg recently returned from a four-day mission to Israel with the Jewish Federation of San Diego, which has a 25-year...

17.12.2023 4

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Here’s how Jewish life changed (for now) after Oct. 7

(JTA) — “Everything changed after Oct. 7.” It’s an axiom being heard around Shabbat tables, in rabbis’ sermons and in countless opinion...

10.12.2023 6

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How ‘decolonization’ became the latest flashpoint in the discourse over Israel

(JTA) — Attend or watch footage of a campus pro-Palestinian demonstration these days and you are likely to see someone carrying a sign reading...

03.12.2023 2

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Why Israel had no choice but to make a ‘bargain with the devil’

(JTA) — In pressing for a deal that could see the release of 50 of the more than 200 hostages held in Gaza in return for a four-day pause in...

22.11.2023 2

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How New Yorker writer Ariel Levy adapted Philip Roth’s filthiest book for the stage

(JTA) — A scruffy, bearded Jewish man in his mid-60s — distressed, disheveled but wickedly self-satisfied — is invited to spend the night at...

03.11.2023 2

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The rabbi who survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 5 years ago considers hope in a dark time for the world’s Jews

(JTA) — In Pittsburgh, “10/27” has become a shorthand for the massacre, on Oct. 27, 2018, of 11 Jews as they gathered for worship at the Tree of...

27.10.2023 4

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As Israel wages war on Hamas, colleges and companies take flak over their responses

(JTA) — On Oct. 10, three days into the war that began after Hamas militants killed some 1,400 Israelis and took nearly 200 others hostage, the...

22.10.2023 7

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10 years and 318 million words later, Safari brings Torah study into the digital age

  (JTA) — When I spoke earlier this week with Sara Wolkenfeld , chief learning officer at Sefaria, she referred to a “story in the Talmud”...

06.10.2023 3

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AI, pluralism and Israel: What North American rabbis spoke about in their High Holiday sermons

(JTA) — Rabbi Debbie Bravo once called the High Holiday sermon “ the World Series for rabbis .” Not only does it fall in late autumn, but...

22.09.2023 20

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How a book by a ‘Zen Rabbi’ became a High Holidays classic

(JTA) — Every few years I put out a call asking what people will be reading in preparation for the High Holidays , and usually one book tops the...

10.09.2023 6

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