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April 25, 2025, 4:15 pm
J Street isn’t what it claims to be
"When you look beyond the tagline and the rhetoric, J Street is not aligned with the pro-Israel community – in fact, they’re aligned with Israel’s loudest opponents."
By Alli Cardin Medof
April 24, 2025, 10:59 am
How this Marc Chagall painting explains Pope Francis’ soul
“White Crucifixion” marked the start of a series of paintings in which he envisioned Christ as an emblem of Jewish persecution.
By Talya Zax
“Palestine Action: The Underground Manual.” (Source: Screenshot)
April 17, 2025, 11:13 am
They have a manual. We need a movement.
Hamas, Hezbollah and those working on their behalf are not supporters of free speech; they are carrying out the will of foreign terrorist organizations.
By Michael Masters
Demonstrators in support of Israel gather to denounce antisemitism and call for the release of Israeli hostages, on the National Mall in Washington, DC, on November 14, 2023. (Photo by Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images)
April 17, 2025, 9:16 am
Dayenu in a time of rising antisemitism
How many positive incidents should members of our Jewish community experience in order for us to feel that there are “enough”?
By Jordan Golin
Community Day School. (Photo courtesy of Community Day School)
April 17, 2025, 9:10 am
If we want Jewish life to survive, we must invest in the living
Jewish continuity has never come from educating others about our suffering. It always comes from educating our children about their story, faith and future.
By Mendy Cohen
Gazan anti-war and anti-Hamas protests in Beit Lahiya, in the northern Gaza Strip, March 25, 2025. (Screenshot from X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law, via The Times of Israel)
April 9, 2025, 1:13 pm
Gazans rally against Hamas. Will the West heed their call?
What kind of government has Hamas given Gazans instead? In a word, theocracy.
By Bassem Eid
Passover seder. Photo by Adam Baker via Flickr at flickr.com/photos/44124479650@N01/15383251
April 9, 2025, 11:39 am
The Passover seder is a model for healing democracies in peril
The Passover seder provides another model — that of embracing and amplifying our shared national narrative.
By Rabbi Meesh Hammer-Kossoy
Passover seder. Photo by Adam Baker via Flickr at flickr.com/photos/44124479650@N01/15383251
April 2, 2025, 10:10 am
Pesach spending: 5 excuses that cost us more
Pesach is a time of renewal and reflection, and financial stress shouldn’t overshadow its meaning.
By Sharon Levin
There's room for both Dolly Parton and Israel in Kally Rubin Kislowicz's world. (Photo by Joe Shlabotnik, courtesy of Flickr.com)
April 2, 2025, 10:07 am
Jolene Ben Ari: The best of both worlds
And then I understood that if being Israeli means not knowing the words to Jolene, I don’t want to be right
By Kally Rubin Kislowicz
The main gate of the former Auschwitz extermination camp in Oswiecim, Poland. (Photo by Christopher Furlong/Getty Images)
April 2, 2025, 9:59 am
To rob the dead: How the Palestinian cause seeks to steal the Shoah
We must state this plainly: The Holocaust was global.
By Catherine Perez-Shakdam
March 26, 2025, 11:59 am
The relentless protests against Netanyahu’s policies
Much like that movement in Italy, this one seeks to politically dismantle Netanyahu by painting him as an authoritarian threat to democracy.
By Fiamma Nirenstein
President Donald Trump meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Avi Ohayon/Israeli Government Press Office)
March 26, 2025, 11:49 am
The government vs. the rule of law
What underlies all these issues is the principle that all public officials must be subordinate, first and foremost, to the law, not to politicians.
By Guy Lurie
(L-R) US Senator John Fetterman, Gisele Fetterman, Sara Netanyahu and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 19, 2025. (Amos Ben Gershom/ GPO)
March 26, 2025, 11:44 am
My son Binyamin’s legacy, and our ally Sen. John Fetterman
Sitting around the table, the senator shed tears.
By Jen Airley
Mahmoud Khalil, a pro-Palestinian activist at Columbia who was arrested by ICE in March 2025, speaking to media. (Screenshot)
March 19, 2025, 9:23 am
The Mahmoud Khalil case
Allowing pro-Hamas actions on U.S. college campuses that incite violence and threaten Jewish students undercuts the U.S. policy of combating antisemitism overseas.
By Robert Silverman
First amendment. (Photo by Brent Payne, courtesy of flickr.com)
March 19, 2025, 9:19 am
American Jews must not give an inch on free speech
Even when words hurt us
By Jeff Zeman
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