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I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

An Israeli rabbi who travels abroad to circumcise Jewish babies wonders why Ireland is cracking down on a ritual sacred for Jews.

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter August 14, 2024 11:27 am

The Sit-Down Ideas

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

The linguist’s celebration of the polyglot city inspires a series of shows at Manhattan’s Little Island.

August 13, 2024 5:01 pm

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My son died on Oct. 7. This Tisha B’Av, I’m thinking about how our greatest threat comes from within.

When the Jewish people are divided, their enemies take notice, writes the executive chairman of World Mizrachi.

August 12, 2024 11:27 am

The Sit-Down Ideas

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for

By Andrew Silow-Carroll August 11, 2024 6:45 am

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At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

By Rabbi Adina Allen August 8, 2024 2:44 pm

Ilona Elek-Schacherer, Helene Mayer and Ellen Müller-Preis

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Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’

By Neil Keller August 8, 2024 12:12 pm

Ideas

It’s not just J.D. Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’: Jewish communities also undervalue people without children

By Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi and Sarah Zager August 1, 2024 3:00 pm

Ideas

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy

By Rabbi Shira Koch Epstein July 31, 2024 3:57 pm

The Sit-Down Ideas

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

By Andrew Silow-Carroll July 31, 2024 10:01 am

Ideas

My stepfather Joe Lieberman set one path as a Jew in politics. Will his many successors follow it?

By Rabbi Ethan Tucker July 26, 2024 1:52 pm

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I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

My son died on Oct. 7. This Tisha B’Av, I’m thinking about how our greatest threat comes from within.

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for

At a time of loss and grief, this Jewish ritual says you don’t have to go it alone

Remembering the three Jewish women fencing champions who defied Hitler at the 1936 ‘Nazi Olympics’

It’s not just J.D. Vance’s ‘childless cat ladies’: Jewish communities also undervalue people without children

Don’t think of mourning as the opposite of joy

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

My stepfather Joe Lieberman set one path as a Jew in politics. Will his many successors follow it?

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