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Debating Zionism is good for Jews, actually
People offended by student objections to a JTS commencement speaker are taking the wrong lessons from our history
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Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there
A controversial speech conveyed essential lessons for all Jews
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Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel
Education is supposed to teach students how to think — not how to condemn
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Opinion Israel’s most dangerous war is with itself
Meetings with leading rabbis made me even more pessimistic about the conflict between secular Jews and the exploding Haredi sector
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Opinion The new face of Holocaust denial is harder to spot — and more dangerous
The grandson of Jews murdered in Nazi gas chambers responds to deniers in a New Hampshire legislative meeting
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Opinion Liberal Zionists are under attack. A new book proves their work has never been more important
Ariel Beery's 'Being Israeli After the Destruction of Gaza' gives voice to Israelis who are anguished — and still fighting
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Opinion Reform Judaism helped craft the Voting Rights Act. Its evisceration gives Jews a new mission
The erosion of the 'crown jewel' of the Civil Rights Movement requires a new era of moral courage
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Opinion Is supporting peace illegal in Israel? A shocking arrest carries a warning
Crackdowns on free speech for Palestinians were always going to lead to the same for Jews
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Looking Forward Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors
A history teacher in Saint-Quentin, France, is reconstructing a lost community, one story at a time
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Opinion Women aren’t equal citizens in Israel. But this week brought us closer than ever
At the same time the right-wing seeks to curtail women's religious freedom, women rabbis celebrated an unprecedented win
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Opinion I’m an Orthodox student in NYC. I’m grateful Mamdani vetoed the school buffer bill
I learn from debating with my classmates, not from having their speech silenced
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News Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s selection as JTS commencement speaker roils graduating class
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Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help.
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Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’
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News Protesters picket Manhattan synagogue over Israel real estate sale, testing Mamdani and new law
