Joe had grown up outside Judaism, searching for a tradition that had room for the questions he already carried. I had grown up inside Judaism and gone somewhere else looking for the kind of questioning I thought Judaism had promised me. ...
Brad Sherman, a representative with a long track record of support for Israel, is warning the Israeli government that support is falling. ...
De-Nur reconstructed the extermination camps according to the principle that they could not be talked about, that we didn’t possess a language adequate to confront them, nor a human vista of comprehension wide enough. ...
As we confront our own mortality, it is time to take stock of our unique identity as the bridge between the inferno from which our parents emerged and the light of a precarious post-Holocaust safety that, they hoped, would spare us and their grandchildren from the agonies they endured. ...
As Israel’s July sun beats down on his broad shoulders and veined arms, Alex Aaron does bicep curls with a
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A conversation celebrating the richness and diversity of Latin-Jewish culture with Dr. Analucía Lopezrevoredo, founder and CEO of Jewtina y Co., and filmmaker Dani Rotstein. ...
From the minute I’d entered the Legacy Sites that morning, I’d felt guilty, maybe presumptuous, about my incorrigible interweaving of Jewish experience into Black suffering. ...
At the conclusion of the holiday, a member of the community wrote to me: “Our society needs leaders who are willing to share emotion and vulnerability. We must not be Sparta.” ...
Heads of the top ultra-Orthodox communities in the U.S. met with the president, the House passed an anti-BDS bill, and JD stuck with Tucker. ...
A conversation about how Yiddish theater was “transformative in its encounter with American life.” ...
"I really loved her, and I tried to model myself after her, her decency and her clarity and her dignity and humor. She was not only my friend and colleague, she was my role model." ...
She has all these unanswered questions about her granddad, mysterious things that were never told to her. These figures have come along and told her the answer, one that wraps things up in a really neat way. ...