Ideas

Ideas

I grew up in Berlin, escaped terror in Israel and was called ‘disgusting Jew’ in New York. Where can I feel safe?

“Being Jewish in New York was easy — until it wasn’t,” writes a college student.

By Selma Spinner September 5, 2024 2:37 pm

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Teen Fellowship Ideas

Music is my passion. Jewish artists are my role models.

Listening to performers like Gracie Abrams and Haim helps a teen musician find a Jewish identity that feels authentic to her.

September 4, 2024 2:30 pm

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Our collective, endless grief is an expression of love, and our most powerful weapon

Every tear of collective grief is an expression of solidarity, writes a sociologist of American Jews.

September 3, 2024 1:10 pm

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From Rachel Goldberg-Polin, we all heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood

By Meg Keene September 1, 2024 4:28 pm

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Rachel is weeping for her child: In Hersh’s grieving mother, we see our matriarch

By Rabbi Menachem Creditor September 1, 2024 3:10 pm

The Sit-Down Ideas

The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 31, 2024 11:45 am

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Jews and Arabs hoped to fill a truck with aid for Gaza civilians. We ended up filling 300.

By Haviva Ner-David August 26, 2024 12:14 pm

The Sit-Down Ideas

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 25, 2024 6:45 am

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What I learned when a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a discussion of Judaism over my Zionism

By Rabbi Andy Bachman August 23, 2024 6:39 pm

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I’m a rabbi who wrote a fantasy novel. I couldn’t have done it without inspiration from our sacred past.

By Rabbi Jill Hammer August 23, 2024 11:35 am

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