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Liberal-thinking Jews like me need a new way to think about Hanukkah

Liberal-thinking Jews like me need a new way to think about Hanukkah

We may not yet realize it, but we need a new story of Hanukkah, lest we lose the next Jewish generation to disillusionment with Jewish power and...

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Herbert Levine

A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust

A timely New York exhibition immerses listeners in voices from the Holocaust

A new exhibit at the New York Historical, “The Recordings: Voices from the ‘Shoah’ Tapes,” begins with a statement from Louise Mirrer, the...

04.12.2025 2

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Andrew Silow-Carroll

In defense of the Sarah Hurwitz we know — and the nuance we all need in this moment

In defense of the Sarah Hurwitz we know — and the nuance we all need in this moment

Over the course of the Obama and Biden administrations, each of us served as the White House liaison to the American Jewish community. In that...

03.12.2025 10

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Jarrod Bernstein

The blood libel never went away. Last week in Washington, D.C., it went viral.

The blood libel never went away. Last week in Washington, D.C., it went viral.

Once again the medieval lie that Jews consume human blood has landed, this time at Washington, D.C.’s Union Station. In an outrageous piece of...

03.12.2025 2

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Pamela S. Nadell

What Philip Roth taught me about my life as a Jewish man, despite his own imperfections

Sometime in 2011 or 2012, racing in a cab to pick up my kids from school, I passed Philip Roth on the corner of West 79th Street and Central Park...

02.12.2025 2

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Stephen Daniel Arnoff

How a teen found a Jewish community he could call his own

How a teen found a Jewish community he could call his own

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...

02.12.2025 1

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Isaiah Davidson

I planned the first Guinness record-breaking Shabbat dinner. I promise I’m not too bitter about being beaten.

Here’s me not feeling even remotely bitter that the Guinness World Record for the largest Shabbat dinner — the one my friends and I set in Tel...

29.11.2025 2

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Deborah Danan