Ideas

Ideas

Why I don’t love ‘Jew hate’ as a substitute for ‘antisemitism’

A faddish term falls short in capturing the subtleties of bias, writes a professor of technology and society.

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The Sit-Down Ideas

A new book made me appreciate Jewish Sunday schools — and the volunteer women who have powered them

Laura Yares looks back at the 19th-century educators, mostly women, who developed a new model for teaching American kids about Judaism.

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We have seen the Jewish future, and it is all about choice

Every movement will have to develop new means of keeping and attracting members, write the co-editors of a new volume on American Judaism.

Summer is almost here. It’s time to learn the Torah of the garden.

Queer Jews fought to join the Celebrate Israel Parade. This year, I marched in drag.

The Israeli origins of Amitai Etzioni’s big ideas about community

‘Succession,’ ‘Barry’ and the very Jewish nature of unresolved endings

Nuance is crucial in fighting hate. That’s why I helped write an alternative definition of antisemitism.

The hora, the hora! How Jewish wedding music got that way

The Jewish calendar reminds us where we’ve been — and what’s next

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