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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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The Jewish Week

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...

05.05.2025 20

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Yehuda Kurtzer

Why Jews of color like me need to tell our stories

Why Jews of color like me need to tell our stories

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...

29.04.2025 2

The Jewish Week

Josie Stempel-Jung

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

Growing up in London, almost everything Rachel Cockerell knew about the British Jewish writer Israel Zangwill could be summed up in three words:...

24.04.2025 3

The Jewish Week

Andrew Silow-Carroll