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My ‘transgressive’ Holocaust novel is still stirring debate, 20 years later

The author of “The Holocaust Kid” writes about the critical and scholarly resistance to ruminations on the Shoah that refuse to be reverent.

By Sonia Pilcer January 25, 2024 6:03 pm

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I’m an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent. Is the Holocaust my story to tell?

During a residency at Yad Vashem, a painter confronts his own place in the Jewish people’s national trauma.

January 24, 2024 4:32 pm

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When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable

There’s a lesson in how the Holocaust survivor had to wait before he could tell his story, writes a rabbi and poet.

January 19, 2024 11:24 am

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When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet

By Shuly Rubin Schwartz January 14, 2024 7:00 am

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Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that.

By Rabbi Elie Kaunfer January 12, 2024 11:00 am

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In hopeless times, we need to the courage to speak up — and to listen

By Rabbi Rebecca Blady January 12, 2024 10:04 am

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What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma

By Rabbi Dr. Tirzah Firestone January 5, 2024 12:04 pm

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The best Jewish books I read in 2023

By Andrew Silow-Carroll December 31, 2023 6:45 am

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In these last months of 2023, I have noticed the Jewish ancestors in me more than ever

By Rabbi Irwin Keller December 29, 2023 10:28 am

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This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

By Rabbi Avital Hochstein and Rabbi Elie Kaunfer December 21, 2023 7:20 pm

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My ‘transgressive’ Holocaust novel is still stirring debate, 20 years later

I’m an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent. Is the Holocaust my story to tell?

When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable

When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet

Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that.

In hopeless times, we need to the courage to speak up — and to listen

What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma

The best Jewish books I read in 2023

In these last months of 2023, I have noticed the Jewish ancestors in me more than ever

This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

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