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My youngest daughter voted for the first time on Oct. 27. She is a Palestinian citizen of Israel, 20 years old, raised in Nazareth and debates...
Florida Democratic Rep. Jared Moscowitz told Fox Business last month that Jews are feeling “politically homeless”: repelled by today’s...
Over the last few years, as tragedy, war and rising global antisemitism afflicted Jewish communities in both the U.S. and Israel, our communities...
When I began writing “The Nuremberg Women,” I thought I was writing about a trial. The deeper I went, the more I realized I was writing about hope...
Eight years ago today in Pittsburgh, on the Shabbat morning of Oct. 27, 2018, a gunman walked into a synagogue and killed 11 Jews from three...
This is part one of a two-part analysis based on the Jewish Federations of North America’s 2026 binational study of Jewish Americans and Jewish...
For American Jews who follow Israel closely, one of the hardest things to understand about Israeli politics today is the gap between the severity of...
When the final two words of a television pilot are “a shiksa,” delivered with unmistakable disdain by a Jewish mother, you know you’re in for...
A question about compensation for Jewish nonprofit CEOs leapt out to me from an eye-catching, stop-the-scroll Instagram post on the Jewish Telegraphic...
An Israeli national security think tank is warning that Israel’s devastating war in Gaza and its broader conflict with the Palestinians is taking a...
There is a rising and troubling consensus that the Jewish state may be guilty of the very crime that led in part to its establishment:...
When I see the word “genocide” in a headline, I read it with a particular sense of responsibility. Raphael Lemkin, the Polish Jewish lawyer who...
Every October, Christopher Columbus returns not only as history but as controversy. The voyages associated with his name transformed the world, but...
At the recent 2026 Atlanta Summit for Black Pastors and Rabbis, I joined 100 rabbis, Black American clergy, Black Jewish leaders, scholars, activists...
This essay originally appeared in Kveller. The miracle of Hanukkah came early this year: Hanukkah Barbie is here. Mattel would like us to call her...
Running a major nonprofit is difficult. Raising money, managing employees, overseeing complex operations and answering to a board and a myriad of...
A year ago, after a screening at Baruch College of my documentary “TORN: The Israel-Palestine Poster War on NYC Streets,” four different students...
On the third anniversary of the devastating Oct. 7 terror attack, it is a moment to remember the terrible human cost of that day – and to consider...
Within weeks of Oct. 7, 2023, a group of psychologists mobilized to respond to the fear, pain and invalidation experienced by Diaspora Jews. There...
Three years ago this week, the massacre of Oct. 7 accelerated a reckoning in Jewish education that had already been building for a long time. In...
The trouble, if that’s the word, began with a text from Havana: “I met someone!” My son, Ben, was 26 and on his third trip to Cuba. He was there...
For generations of American Jews, The New York Times has been more than a newspaper. It has been the hometown paper of the largest Jewish community...
Growing up, Yizkor was the time during services when my mom would bustle us out of the sanctuary of our suburban Arizona synagogue, lest we tempt the...
At breakfast in Queens, New York, before my first day of school in America, my parents spoke in hushed, urgent voices, as if planning a heist. I was...
(J. The Jewish News of Northern California via JTA) — It’s a common sight in American synagogues: A kid stands at the bima to read their b’nai...
The student choir stands harmonizing beneath a glowing wooden cross suspended above the stage, their voices blending together as the lyrics glow...
In the shadow-filled days that followed Oct. 7, 2023, few things were as clear as the solemn understanding that what was cannot be again, and that...
I am a life-long surfer but I’ve never been much of a surf traveler. The search for the perfect wave has long been embedded in surfing culture, but...
For many Jews, the High Holidays are an annual encounter with a question they spend much of the rest of the year avoiding: Why have a religious life...
Leave it to Paul Reichenbach to leave this world on the morning of the second day of Rosh Hashanah — with its Torah portion telling Abraham that it...
We live in the age of the strategic apology. A politician apologizes days before an election when an opponent surfaces uncomfortable dirt. A CEO...
On Rosh Hashanah morning, a rabbi stands in front of you, in front of God, having spent weeks preparing for this exact moment, praying that they can...
In keeping with Jewish tradition and the directive of Proverbs 24:17, I do not rejoice at the death of Ratko Mladić. I do, however, take profound...
In a lifetime of theater-going I have never heard the word “historiography” on stage. But that is exactly what the Tony-Award winning playwright...
When historian James Loeffler set out to write a history of antisemitism and free speech in America, he kept running into the same complaint from...
About a month before the Oct. 7, 2023, massacres, the India-Middle East-Europe Economic Corridor, or IMEC, was unveiled at the G20 summit in New...
A communications consultant was let go by the Jewish Federations of North America last week for saying something that a number of Jewish leaders and...
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...
Losing our daughter Malki felt like a horror movie unfolding in real time. Aug. 9, 2001, was a school vacation morning in Jerusalem. I left early for...
Sometime between Friday night and Saturday morning, July 31 into August 1, someone crept into the Plaza de Tiberíades in the old Jewish quarter of...
Watching a train wreck in real time, while mesmerizing, is never fun. It can, however, be educational. By encouraging New Yorkers to protest against...
As Conservative/Masorti rabbis, we see firsthand the joy of couples building a life together in the Jewish community, and the pain of those who feel...
In 2002, Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, described a series of mostly anti-Israel actions on and beyond campus as “antisemitic in their...
When red hearts and pink chocolate boxes pop up in the middle of summer, it can take a moment to remember that you’re not somehow late for...
Every generation tells itself the same story: We have learned the lessons of history. We are wiser than those who came before us. That could never...
The release of filmmaker Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey,” which brought in $264 million at the box office during its blockbuster opening...
On Thursday, on Tisha B’Av, violence came frighteningly close to home to Congregation Rodeph Sholom, the synagogue I lead on Manhattan’s Upper...
When left-wing streamer Hasan Piker addressed the national convention of the College Democrats of America this past weekend, he wasn’t just...
From Mount Scopus, Rabbi Akiva, with three other sages, gazes down at the destroyed Second Temple. A fox, fulfilling Jeremiah’s dismal prophecy,...
In early 2023, I wrote a novel that was Jewish in every possible way. The lovers called each other “ahuvati” and “neshama sheli” — Hebrew...
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