08
Jul
From the Margins to the Mainstream
Thirty years after the Rebbe’s death, is Chabad the most influential Jewish denomination today?
08
Jul
B’Ivrit | Israeli Dailies Pounce on Biden’s Lackluster Debate Performance
“The Debate and the Collapse,” read the main headline of Yediot Aharonot, Israel’s largest centrist publication. The commentary column alongside the article, written by Nadav Eyal, was simply titled “Catastrophe.”
08
Jul
JPVP Roundup | Trump’s Trials and Biden’s Tribulations
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By
Moment
In this update, 7 JPVP respondents talk about how Biden’s poor performance at the debate will affect their votes in November.
08
Jul
Opinion | Jewish Anti-Zionists, Check Your Privilege
It’s easy to say a Jewish state is not needed from the safety of the United States.
08
Jul
Opinion | A Deportation Policy With Chilling Echoes
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By
Marc Fisher
Stephen Miller, Trump’s speechwriter and the architect of the deportation proposal, promised the biggest forced movement of people in American history.
07
Jul
Book Review | Noah Feldman Explains Us To Ourselves
Noah Feldman’s “To Be A Jew” Today offers readers from many branches of the Jewish family tree a glimpse of other boughs and limbs and what their close and distant cousins in Jewishness make of life in the family.
07
Jul
Opinion | Is the Christian Right Coming for Birth Control?
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By
Sarah Posner
“Trump’s base wants Trump because he’s their messianic hero, but also because he enables a small bloc of religious zealots to use the government to impose their biblical worldview on everyone else.”
04
Jul
Jewish Word | Verklempt: The Yiddish Word that Wasn’t
Borrowed from Yiddish and launched into the cultural stratosphere by a Canadian comedian and his Jewish mother-in-law, “verklempt” keeps evolving.
02
Jul
Adam Witkov: We’re Talking Out of Both Sides of Our Mouth on Israel
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By
“I think influence from the left has maybe changed his tune or his actions with regards to Israel.”
02
Jul
Ushi Teitelbaum: Biden Needs to Go
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By
“Biden should be replaced immediately for the sake of the country.”
02
Jul
Chesky Blau: Someone Other Than Biden
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By
“I wish the Democrats could have come up with an alternative (to Biden).”
02
Jul
Diana Leygerman: Judicial Overreach
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By
“I knew that Trump’s goals were to pack the courts with conservative judges who will allow him to do whatever he wants to do without consequences.”