Jewish World

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"As a non-binary, queer Jew, we're living our life kind of on the periphery, and navigating our identities on a daily basis." ...
A group of Jewish Zionist supporters gathered in Washington, DC on Friday to protest the DC Dyke March’s ban on Israeli flags and Pride flags with the Star of David in the middle. ...

1. A state of fear This week, the American Jewish Committee released its annual survey which, this year, looks not only

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Moment's Ask The Rabbis asks where the Jewish religion, tradition and text stand on racism ...
Marge Piercy doesn’t live that far off the beaten track—it’s only Cape Cod, after all—but it feels remote, especially in the off-season. The poet, novelist and longtime feminist activist, who’s now 83, has lived in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, since the 1970s. ...
Abraham Joshua Heschel once towered as America’s foremost Jewish public intellectual. In this hour, he might well be the thinker of the hour. ...
Louie Kemp, Bob Dylan's lifelong friend and manager of Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder tour, tells about meeting Dylan at camp, their adventures over the years and Dylan's relationship with Judaism. ...
The United States is not the UK, and the Democratic Party is certainly not the British Labour party. But the echoes of British, left-wing anti-Semitism and a two-camp worldview can be heard on many American college campuses, within extreme-left political groups and even among some American progressives. It reminds us ...

How many Reform Jews live in Israel? The proper answer to this question ought to be: Who cares? And yet

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Helena survived three concentration camps and when the last one was liberated she was flown by the Red Cross to a hospital in Sweden. She was 5'4" and weighed 52 lbs. Her roommate in the hospital, a fellow survivor, knit the sweater for her while they were there. She told ...

1. Who’s in and who’s out of Trump’s Jewish allies circle? Last Tuesday, the White House hosted a group of

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In our 2019 seder supplement, we've collected some of Moment’s best Passover stories—from the history of charoset to the best Passover movies. ...