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During my early years of cantorial school, I noticed a significant gap in my studies. While the coursework included extensive classes on biblical...
When J Street, the liberal pro-Israel lobby, met last weekend in Washington for its annual policy conference, it had to scramble to adjust to a joint...
After the actress Catherine O’Hara died, I decided to revisit some of her most vaunted performances, in comedies written by Christopher Guest. There...
“I’m not doing this!” the mother screamed. “Tell everyone they can go home — I won’t hold my baby’s Bris while rockets are on the...
It wasn’t always this way. As I watch the war unfold with trepidation and hope for the land where the Purim story takes place, I keep thinking about...
Around me, I see many Jews using the timing in the Jewish calendar to understand the current U.S.-Israel war against Iran in biblical terms. We are...
I have spent much of my life living in, traveling to, and learning about Israel. Like many who care deeply about the Jewish state, I hold strong views...
Days after the Super Bowl, I am still reeling from how a moment designed to confront antisemitism — a 30-second ad from Robert Kraft’s Blue Square...
I was on my way to pick up my daughters from school when it happened. In the middle of the main street, in broad daylight, a young man on a motorcycle...
The usual perception of Soviet Jewish literature after World War II is that there was none. The conversation around the decades after the Holocaust...
The recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America on American Jews’ attitudes toward Israel and Zionism has sparked more than...
During the recent Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations’ mission to Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu demanded that Jews...
Purim is not only a celebration of Jewish survival. It is a political handbook. The Book of Esther reads less like ancient folklore and more like a...
On the morning of Purim after I pray and hear the Scroll of Esther read aloud, I put a wad of $20 bills in my pocket and get on my bike. Not singles....
In 2015, when my consulting firm organized the No Nukes for Iran Project to support the JCPOA — the Iran nuclear deal — we didn’t do so because...
For more than two decades we have sat across the same tables — in Jerusalem conference rooms, Montreal board meetings, New York offices and plenty...
The newest Jewish Federations of North America survey has already generated its share of anxious headlines: Only 37% of American Jews say they...
The occupation of Minneapolis by ICE is terrifying and ominous. Last month 1,000 clergy from around the country traveled to the Twin Cities to witness...
When Bad Bunny took the stage at the Super Bowl, the world didn’t just see a global superstar; we witnessed a masterclass in the psychology of...
In New Jersey’s 11th Congressional District, AIPAC just put a strident anti-Israel voice on the path to Congress. But hey, at least it alienated one...
One Sunday last year, as I stood at the weekly Israelis for Peace gathering in Union Square Park, a young couple stopped for a moment. The man caught...
Only about one-third of American Jews are Zionists, according to a recent survey conducted by the Jewish Federations of North America — the first...
When several dozen family and friends gathered last month for a memorial service in New York to celebrate the life of Marshall Weinberg — a New York...
At a moment when op-eds and headlines raise alarms that American Jews — especially young Jews — are turning away from Israel, the data tell a...
I’ve been to Madrid twice, both times to perform ritual circumcisions, and both trips overlapped with some of the saddest yearly Jewish...
Back in 2016, my Oma, Eva Schloss, made international headlines for comparing Trump and Hitler. As a child, she lived through the rise of fascism, a...
Deni Avdija being named an NBA All-Star reserve is an unbelievable achievement in the mind of every Israeli basketball fan. This is a dream come true...
Beth Berkowitz was 12 years old, sitting at Shabbat dinner at Camp Ramah in the Berkshires, when she noticed something she could not unsee: tiny...
Most people would accept the claim that Oct. 7 was an inflection point in Jewish history. But fewer realize that it was also an inflection point for...
We are living in uncertain times, with the rise of antisemitism and the normalization of things that were once universally condemned. Swastikas in...
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s revelation that he was asked by a member of Kamala Harris’s vice-presidential team vetting him whether he had...
A proposal by officials at Deutsche Bahn, the German federal railway system, is serving up a potential train wreck of gargantuan proportions when it...
After publishing two books in 2023 and 2024 for young readers in our “ Upstander Stories—Brave People Who Saved Jews During the Holocaust ”...
Jerry Lippman, the indefatigable publisher of the Long Island Jewish World and the Manhattan Jewish Sentinel, who passed away Sept. 1 at age 76, was...
Several years ago, my book on King David was optioned for a movie by Warner Brothers. A few scripts were written and then it fell into the void of...
I grew up in a large suburban Conservative synagogue in the 1980s. It was there that I learned what it meant to be a Jew. I attended religious school...
In December 1778, as the American Revolution still raged, a Jewish writer in Charlestown opened a newspaper and saw Jews made into wartime...
For two years, Jackson, Mississippi, was my home. It was the first place I lived after college, when I worked as an education fellow at the...
SYDNEY — “As a Holocaust survivor, I want my Australia back!” This was the impassioned plea that garnered rapturous applause from several...
The year 2026 will be a fateful and challenging time for American Jews and for those of us who support Israel and worry about its future as a secure,...
I remember being freaked out, and fascinated, by my parents’ copy of Hans Christian Andersen fairy tales. It featured these especially lurid...
Last month, I saw the legendary jam band Phish as part of their annual four-night New Year’s Run at Madison Square Garden. I went as a fan of their...
Legacy runs deep in Judaism, shaping both who we are and the choices we make. For me, that legacy is embodied by my grandfather, Rabbi Alexander...
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...
Exactly 100 years ago, on Jan. 4, 1926, legendary American Jewish songwriter Irving Berlin married Ellin Mackay, a Roman Catholic heiress, in a civil...
In January 2011, I wrote my first entry in a five-year diary. It seems I watched “No Country for Old Men” and had “anxiety over … board...
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...
When a Jewish girl in 12th grade stands up to discuss Israeli politics, she speaks with the same confidence level as a boy in 7th grade. What’s...
Amid the rumbling vibrancy of Mumbai, a city of around 27 million within a country of nearly 1.5 billion, lies my small yet mighty community where...
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