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“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...
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...
Every June, rainbow flags appear, organizations post messages celebrating Pride Month and communities reaffirm their commitment to inclusion and...
Over 40 years, Rabbi Rolando Matalon helped turn B’nai Jeshurun into one of the most influential synagogues in American Jewish life. This month,...
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...
As we mark Juneteenth, I am thinking about the difference between being declared free and being fully recognized. Juneteenth marks the day in 1865...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When the Jewish Brigade appears today in Italian public debate, it is rarely about the British Army unit, formed largely by Jewish volunteers from...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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”...
Reading the polls and listening to conservative podcasts, you would understandably think that Republicans are souring on Israel and poised to start...
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...
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...
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...
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...
“Rabbi Greyber, you can’t hide — we charge you with genocide.” Those were the words shouted at me in front of Hebrew school students outside...
When I learned that Holocaust deniers had infiltrated a New Hampshire legislative meeting and tried to insert their view into the state’s Holocaust...
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...
In the crowded canon of books about how to change the world, few loom as large as Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals.” Published in 1971, the...
My inbox recently broadcast a remarkable juxtaposition: “Jewish American Heritage Month is coming!” some messages told me. Others focused on...
The Bible is back in the news. In a Pentagon prayer service on April 15, Secretary of War Pete Hegseth quoted what was seemingly meant to be a verse...
Matzah is not something I typically give much thought to in the days following Passover. Yet I cannot stop thinking about a piece of shmura matzah I...
“I’m tired of debating the encampments,” said one student as others nodded. Here I was, a fly on the wall, during an open-space dialogue about...
We were used to a pretty steady stream of calls, texts, and emails reporting things like a swastika on a bathroom floor, a Jewish student being...
Psalm 127 begins this way: “A Song of Ascents. Of Solomon. Unless God builds the house, those who build it labor in vain.” It’s an idea that has...
We are two Australians in our 30s, and if you asked us what most shaped the way we love and understand Israel, we would both give the same slightly...
At a time when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict feels perhaps farther than ever from a solution, Aziz Abu Sarah and Maoz Inon are offering something...
LOS ANGELES — When I boarded a plane to Israel with students from de Toledo High School in February, I knew the trip would carry unusual weight....
This Holocaust Remembrance Day marks nearly 81 years since the end of World War II. Few living witnesses remain, whether Holocaust survivors or...
The formulaic question we should be adapting from the Passover seder and asking ourselves as we commemorate the victims of the Holocaust this year is,...
It has been a month since March 12 and there is a story unfolding at Temple Israel that most people would not be aware of. It’s not the headlines or...
I do not typically sign public rabbinic statements. I rarely agree with every word of a collective letter, and signing one can shift the focus from...
Reconstructionist Judaism, wrote the Jewish sociologist Charles Liebman almost 60 years ago, “comes closer than any other movement or school of...
WARSAW — As a non-Jewish college student, I felt both excitement and trepidation when I got the call that I had been accepted into a newsmaking tour...
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...
It is a lonely time to be a North American Jew. The last two years have seen frayed relationships with allies, intergenerational discord around...
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