Ideas

Ideas

The 20th century was very good for these Jewish icons. Is the Golden Age really over?

Mel Brooks, Betty Friedan, Norman Mailer and Leonard Bernstein are the “unruly” subjects of David Denby’s “Eminent Jews.”

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Ideas

Israel and those who love it are stuck in a hopeless present. Can we ever get back to the future?

Those of us who are not in power need to reawaken the possibility of hope, writes the Shalom Hartman Institute’s Yehuda Kurtzer.

Teen Fellowship Ideas

Why Jews of color like me need to tell our stories

“My appearance tells one narrative, while my heritage tells another,” writes a JTA Teen Fellow.

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

I’m half-Jewish, but my Jewish life is as full as it gets

The Francis I knew: a warrior against antisemitism, a sometimes impolitic critic of Israel

Who killed Jesus? It wasn’t the Jews, writes a scholar of Roman law.

Passover retreats don’t have to be a spiritual and communal exodus

How small-town Jewish teens like me stay connected in the Bible Belt

My ‘mixed multitude’ Passover seder was a ringing, singing celebration of diversity

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