Ideas

What a liberal Jewish teen learned at a conference of conservatives

At the Conservative Political Action Conference, a student at New York’s Fieldston School discovers an alternative universe of Jewish politics.

Ideas

Hamas has made me hate. How can I pray for peace?

“Hamas is my enemy,” writes a rabbi, “but I refuse to let them change me.”

Teen Fellowship Ideas

As a teen, I see the Jewish present in new films about the Jewish past

“A Real Pain,” “The Brutalist” and “September 5” are ways for young Jews to understand where they come from and what that means today, writes a JTA Teen Journalism Fellow.

A Jewish atheist calls out evangelicals for undermining democracy — and Christianity

We couldn’t save the Bibas boys, but we can still choose life

The Bibas family embodied our hope and despair. Where do we turn when hope is dashed?

Are charter schools public schools? The question that has divided educators now has religious implications.

I liked the AI Jews-against-Kanye video — and we should all be terrified of it

Was the Jewish Bronx the ‘paradise’ that it seemed?

I was raised on Peter Yarrow’s songs — but don’t think Jewish communities should sing them

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