Joshua M. Davidson is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York.
Rabbi Joshua Davidson
By Rabbi Joshua Davidson
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Opinion Seems like everyone’s mad at Chuck Schumer. That’s bad for Jews (including the ones who are mad at Chuck Schumer)
Jews are being caught in the middle of forces beyond our control. It's unlikely to turn out well
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Opinion ‘It’s hard to be a Jew’ — old Yiddish proverb never felt more resonant in America
Rabbis, parents of young children and teenagers all reeling from antisemitism or its silent sanction
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I remember as a young child how my parents would take me with them into the voting booth to teach me not just how all the levers worked, but how democracy worked. For Jews of an earlier America, voting was a sacred privilege. Our immigrant forebears would dress for the polling place as though for…
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