Columnist ignores Palestinian complicity in recent Gaza fighting
A third of Gazans who were killed died from errant Islamic Jihad rockets, not Israeli airstrikes
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In Holocaust exhibit, unanswered questions are the point
President and CEO of Museum of Jewish Heritage responds to author's praise and critique
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Letter | ADL: Critic distorted our record and ignored examples that undermine her argument
OpEd writer ‘entitled to her views’ but ‘loses credibility by creating her own facts,’ group says
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We need a tenure system for American rabbis
Prior to heroically initiating the escape of three congregants and himself from the Jan. 15, 2022 hostage siege in Congregation Beth Israel synagogue in Colleyville, Texas, Rabbi Charlie Cytron-Walker, who had led the Reform temple for 15 years, was informed that his contract would not be renewed. In Oct. 2021, Rabbi Benjamin Goldschmidt, the assistant…
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