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Where's the Lie?
February 11, 2019Calling out the Israel lobby is not ipso facto antisemitism.
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American Uses and Misuses of the Holocaust
February 8, 2019Wielding Holocaust memory to make America look good is an American tradition.
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On Accompaniment
February 7, 2019The migrant caravan brings solidarity practices with them on their journey north.
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Only a Green New Deal Can Save Us
February 5, 2019The crisis of climate change is too important to leave in the hands of billionaires.
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Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Isn’t About You
January 18, 2019AOC’s announcement of Jewish heritage needs to be read in the context of Sephardic and Latin American history.
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What Ocasio-Cortez’s Jewish Heritage Means
January 8, 2019Claiming Jewish heritage is fundamentally different than claiming Jewishness. But it still matters.
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Jack Kirby’s Golem
December 26, 2018Ben Grimm’s Jewishness has been hiding in plain sight for decades.
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Unrequited Love: When Women Study the Talmud
December 11, 2018Women Talmud scholars find different paths through a patriarchal text.
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Marc Lamont Hill Did Nothing Wrong
November 30, 2018Moral seriousness is no reason to be fired.
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Notes from the Underground
November 26, 2018An overnight stay in the Vilna Ghetto's newest attraction.
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On Shiva, Personal and Collective
November 6, 2018The writer remembers a shiva for her father, Krishna, at a moment of collective Jewish grief and fumbling for solidarity.
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The Long Jewish Relationship with Thomas Jefferson
November 3, 2018What explains the long history of Jewish admiration for this particular founding father?
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Sunday School After Squirrel Hill: Resources and Reflection
October 30, 2018Teachers share thoughts and resources on how to talk to students about antisemitism and intersectional justice in the wake of the Squirrel Hill shooting.
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Universities Must Reckon With Their Role in the Occupation
October 23, 2018A University of Michigan instructor explains why she declined to recommend a student for a study abroad program in Israel.
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The Soros Myth
October 11, 2018Antisemitism has long been a tool of the right wing to undermine democracy.
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Morality, Fate, Faith, Freedom: Reasons to Revisit Bernard Malamud
October 8, 2018“Can a writer write for all men from a position of minority? Malamud’s work convinces me.”
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The DOJ Fired Me For Protesting Family Separation. I Don’t Regret It.
October 2, 2018Speaking truth to power is necessary to force political change.
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Writing About the Present: Mirror, Body, Shadow
August 27, 2018An essay from Joshua Cohen’s new collection, “Attention: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction.”
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Uri Avnery, 1923-2018
August 21, 2018The lion of Israel’s peace movement has passed away at age 94.
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Jeffrey Goldberg Doesn’t Speak for the Jews
August 2, 2018The editor of The Atlantic represents the failure of the liberal establishment.
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Art in a State of Emergency
July 31, 2018What is the artist’s responsibility in a time of political crisis?
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'What does Vietnam have to do with Tisha B’Av?'
July 26, 2018Most Jews who observe Tisha B'Av spend it mourning in synagogue. In 1972, this group spent the holiday in the streets—presaging today's era of political ritual.
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'What does Vietnam have to do with Tisha B’Av?'
July 26, 2018Most Jews who observe Tisha B'Av spend it mourning in synagogue. In 1972, this group spent the holiday in the streets—presaging today's era of political ritual.
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Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, 1945 – 2018
July 17, 2018Remembering one of American Jewry’s most inspiring activists and writers.
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Good Riddance to Anthony Kennedy—Now #PackTheCourts
June 30, 2018A bad judge and a worse writer leaves American democracy with a political organizing crisis.
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Transitions in Jewish Time: A Trans Writer Visits the Mikveh
June 12, 2018“Going to the mikveh meant giving my body, as it was, a place to be loved and called to holiness.”
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Roth Versus The Rabbis
May 23, 2018“It was presumptuous of you, Rabbi Rackman, to speak of yourself to me as ‘a leader of his people.’ You are not my leader and I can only thank God for it.”
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'Three More Pieces'
May 17, 2018"I don’t recall that those colorful brochures from Israel, sent to Russian Jews like my family, mentioned the Palestinians."
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'Three More Pieces'
May 17, 2018"I don’t recall that those colorful brochures from Israel, sent to Russian Jews like my family, mentioned the Palestinians."
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The Jerusalem Embassy Ceremony Was Liberal Zionism's Funeral
May 17, 2018America and Israel's Monday celebration made it clear what supporting Israel looks like in practice.
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Gaza and the Question of Culpability
May 16, 2018Hamas did not force Palestinians to march to the fence. Gaza's desperate situation did.
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On an Emerging Diasporism
April 16, 2018The simultaneous crises of the Trump presidency in America and the ongoing rightward radicalization of Israel are fueling a Diasporic revival. Where might it take us?
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On an Emerging Diasporism
April 16, 2018The simultaneous crises of the Trump presidency in America and the ongoing rightward radicalization of Israel are fueling a Diasporic revival. Where might it take us?
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Culturally Muslim
April 16, 2018Growing up Pakistani-American, the first time I recognized myself in the world of a novel was when I read Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint.
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