Community Today I Am Weeping For Pittsburgh — But We Must Stand Strong Together Sometimes, maybe it is the same for you, I come to shul on Shabbat and just look around. I am trying to understand the stories of all the people who have come to pray. There are the wide-eyed newcomers, so polite. There are the insiders, and the ones who came for the bar mitzvah, unmistakable… By Noa Kushner Oct 28, 2018 | 2 min read
Holy Ground A Jewish farmer broke ground on a synagogue in an Illinois cornfield. His neighbors showed up to help. By Benyamin Cohen May 8, 2026 | 6 min read
Opinion I discovered anti-Zionism at the University of Michigan. I’m glad it lives on there By Gayle Kirshenbaum May 8, 2026 | 5 min read
Opinion An alarming new battleground in campus fights over Israel By Alanna E. Cooper May 8, 2026 | 4 min read
Culture An Israeli genocide scholar looks to Israel’s history to understand ‘what went wrong’ By Robert Zaretsky May 6, 2026 | 7 min read
Fast Forward Long Island school district pays $125K to settle lawsuit over erased pro-Palestinian student art By Grace Gilson May 13, 2026 | 2 min read
Yiddish World 1912 Yiddish operetta tackles class conflict and women’s rights By Jon Kalish May 13, 2026 | 4 min read
News They texted about Torah and mitzvahs. Feds say they were insider trading By Louis Keene May 13, 2026 | 6 min read
Culture Trump announced a national Shabbat — and a giant celebration of Christianity the very next day By Mira Fox May 13, 2026 | 4 min read