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The rabbi who survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 5 years ago considers hope in a dark time for the world’s Jews

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The Sit-Down

Despite deep divides over Gaza, a Jewish leader seeks allies in defense of democracy

Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice

How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

Why an Israeli policy expert says talk of a two-state solution is dangerously premature

Why one Israeli security veteran hasn’t given up on a two-state solution

In dark times, is a dystopian Jewish novel just what we need?

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

Why Israel had no choice but to make a ‘bargain with the devil’

The rabbi who survived the Pittsburgh synagogue shooting 5 years ago considers hope in a dark time for the world’s Jews

10 years and 318 million words later, Sefaria brings Torah study into the digital age

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