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A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

An academic trend distorts the real issues that could bring peace and security to both sides, writes Adam Kirsch.

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What I learned when a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a discussion of Judaism over my Zionism

The upside of the unpleasant experience, writes Andy Bachman: being reminded of the power of friendship and old-fashioned debate.

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I’m a rabbi who wrote a fantasy novel. I couldn’t have done it without inspiration from our sacred past.

Everything we create weaves together elements of what is and what is beyond, writes Jill Hammer.

As a Holocaust educator, I’ve grappled with same questions Tim Walz explored — and that’s reassuring

I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

My son died on Oct. 7. This Tisha B’Av, I’m thinking about how our greatest threat comes from within.

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for

At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Helene Mayer and Ellen Müller-Preis

Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’

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