Ideas

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

The Tenth of Tevet is not just a fast day mourning the destruction of the temple but a day to mourn those for whom the date of death is unknown.

Ideas

What is antisemitism? At a Jewish studies conference, scholars use the archives as a guide — and a warning

Antisemitism is often difficult to find in the archives — and sometimes difficult to name in the moment.

Ideas

The pro-Israel case for a negotiated end to the war in Gaza

Would it be a victory to turn Israel into a pariah state? To sacrifice more soldiers? To create new terrorists? asks Rabbi Jill Jacobs, executive director of T’ruah.

My family history makes me too progressive for the Zionists and too Zionist for the progressives

Among Jewish Americans, a ‘quiet middle’ has growing qualms over the war in Gaza

100 years later, Ze’ev Jabotinsky’s hawkish Zionism sounds like a formula for peace

I know university presidents can respond better to odious speech — because I saw it happen at my school

Here’s how Jewish life changed (for now) after Oct. 7

David Ellenson was my rabbi. I can’t believe we won’t learn from him anymore.

We need a do-over for the last 2 months. Hanukkah is made for the moment.

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