Opinion

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  How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?

  Jewish life began to be more defined by fear long before the Oct. 7 attack

  By Gayle Kirschenbaum

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  Why France celebrated a Jewish avenger of Ukrainian pogroms

  A century ago, Sholom Schwartzbard assassinated ex-president Symon Petliura in Paris. His acquittal remains a reminder of French friendship to Jews

  By Deborah Waroff May 29, 2026 | 4 min read
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  My university is enabling the Trump administration’s worst fallacies on antisemitism

  As UCLA faces yet another lawsuit, it should consider a more wide-ranging approach to combatting campus hate

  By David N. Myers May 28, 2026 | 4 min read

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman The San Diego imam defended Oct. 7. His mosque still deserves our help

  

• Dan Perry Don’t dismiss Israel’s most rage-baiting minister as fringe

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot

  

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  In Miami, rekindling the Black-Jewish alliance that Clarence Jones insisted never died

  A national convening comes days after the death of Martin Luther King Jr.’s lawyer and speechwriter, whose life embodied a partnership many now seek to rebuild

  By Robin Washington May 28, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Mamdani has made ample efforts for Jews. How come no one is telling that story?

  A narrative of constant division and suspicion can't help us move forward

  By Libby Lenkinski May 27, 2026 | 3 min read
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  In Trump’s assault on democracy, echoes of Nazi Germany but new glimmers of hope that America will be different

  Unlike the Reichstag in its final years, American lawmakers are finally showing signs of resistance

  By Terrence Petty May 23, 2026 | 4 min read
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  How can I explain to my 93-year-old mother why it suddenly seems ok to hate Jews?

  Her parents fled pogroms. Now the country they thought was safe seems less so

  By Peter Himmelman May 22, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Don’t dismiss Israel’s most rage-baiting minister as fringe

  Itamar Ben-Gvir is a consummate provocateur building real political momentum

  By Dan Perry May 22, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Netanyahu is facing electoral catastrophe — and could place Israel in existential peril

  The prime minister is backed into a corner, which makes him dangerous

  By Dan Perry May 20, 2026 | 4 min read
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  The San Diego imam defended Oct. 7. His mosque still deserves our help

  Muslims and Jews are the two most targeted religious communities in America. We can fight our common threats better together

  By Rob Eshman May 19, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Piers Morgan is what’s wrong with media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict — and I can’t stop watching him

  The future of 'journalism' on the Middle East conflict should terrify us all

  By Rob Eshman May 16, 2026 | 4 min read