Since October 7, the American Jewish conversation seems to have become stuck in an infinite loop that circles between fear for the Jewish future and finger-pointing in all directions.
With the death of Alexei Navalny, Vladimir Kara-Murza—the crusading and imprisoned Russian journalist—is now the public face of dissent and most prominent democratic opponent of Vladimir Putin’s dictatorship.
What will happen on the “day after” the war in Gaza ends is one of the things (there are a few) over which the U.S. administration and the Israeli government are having a dispute.
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Join Shai Held for a conversation about why he believes that “love belongs as much to Judaism as it does to Christianity.”
Pam Janis
Joseph Werk shares his story of escaping Poland during WWII and his involvement with the IDF’s volunteer service Sar-El.
By noon, less than three hours after the exchange began, Washington and Jerusalem were in full crisis mode.
American Jewish responses to this existential threat include a spate of new books, fresh efforts to organize grassroots Jewish climate activists and increased attention to climate within the Jewish environmental movement.
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Once the Israel-Hamas War ends, is a two-state solution with Israelis and Palestinians living peacefully side by side in two countries still possible? What would it take now for both sides to agree to two states?
Naomi Ragen
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A conversation about becoming a comedianshow being Jewish intersects with their comedy and how older women are finding laughter in their second act in life.
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Is London burning? Are students safe? And is the golden age of American Jews ending?
