Josh Katz is a safety and security consultant. He runs a Krav Maga studio in Woodland Park, New Jersey, and is past president of Temple Ner Tamid in Bloomfield, New Jersey.
Josh Katz
By Josh Katz
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Opinion Why everyone should go see the Nova Exhibition in Los Angeles
Bearing witness has a different urgency since Oct. 7
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Opinion Why I (finally) took down my ‘We Stand With Israel’ sign
Not because I don’t support the Jewish state. Because not everything can be summed up in a slogan
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Opinion What the end of the Purim story teaches us about Israel’s war against Hamas
Liberal Jews must stop their hand-wringing about the need to wipe out our enemies
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Opinion Our Reform leaders sinned. Should we still sing songs they wrote?
Reform synagogues across the nation are struggling to make sense of the damning report released earlier this month showing nearly unfettered patterns of unwanted sexual contact between male faculty and female students at Hebrew Union College over five decades. Released on the anniversary of Kristallnacht, the report, conducted by an independent law firm, showed that…
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Fast Forward Why neo-Nazis marched in Ohio this weekend, and almost every weekend in the US
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Opinion The group behind Project 2025 has a plan to protect Jews. It will do the opposite.
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Opinion Just about every interpretation of Trump’s narrow election victory is wrong
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News Texas schools want to add Queen Esther to the curriculum. Here’s why Jews (and many Christians) are opposed.
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Fast Forward Rep. Ritchie Torres, outspoken pro-Israel advocate, is dropping hints that he could run for NY governor
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Fast Forward Ursula Haverbeck, infamous German Holocaust denier known as ‘Nazi grandma,’ dies at 96
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Fast Forward A Jewish museum in Tulsa held a funeral for remains of Holocaust victims it kept for years
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Sports Texas A&M’s Sam Salz cherishes his first taste of DI college football — and the opportunity to inspire fellow Orthodox Jews
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