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What Jewish mysticism can teach us about psychedelics

The literature of Jewish prophecy and revelation has ample analogues to psychedelic experiences, writes a rabbi and author.

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On a visit to Israel, I learned to curb my certainty and listen to our complicated people

American Jewish opinion on the war in Gaza should be tempered by humility, writes the rabbi of New York’s Temple Emanu-El.

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

In “A Brutal Design,” Zachary Solomon adds to the growing genre of Jewish speculative fiction.

I left the US fearing antisemitism under Trump. Oct. 7 has me rethinking my place in Canada, too.

Remembering Irving Levine, an AJC official who saw the future of identity politics

Why the Conservative movement is changing our approach to interfaith marriage

Old songs have new meanings after Oct. 7 — and new music helps the heartbroken like me

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

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

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