Opinion

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  Vaccine hesitancy is not a uniquely Haredi problem

  The first case of polio in years was recently revealed to be an Orthodox Jewish man, leading some to blame the community at large

  By David N. Myers

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  Volunteering for a Jewish burial society showed me how to live a more sacred life

  The work of a Chevra Kadisha is done without promotion or fanfare, and is solely for the benefit of the deceased

  By Hannah Lebovits Jul 21, 2022 | 5 min read
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  AIPAC’s new high-risk, low-reward political strategy

  In the long run, the pro-Israel lobby's pivot to negative electioneering will fail

  By Ken Toltz Jul 21, 2022 | 3 min read

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• Rob Eshman Americans keep getting killed in the West Bank. Here’s how the US could fight that awful trend

  

• Nora Berman First Camp Auschwitz, now Alligator Alcatraz — why the right is obsessed with commodifying brutality

  

• Dan Perry What exactly is going on between Israel and Syria — and is the prospect of peace dead?

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  Buried in a wedding gown: The real-life ‘Corpse Bride’ haunting my childhood

  Understanding a heartbreaking story through Jewish history, traditions and folklore

  By Harriet Levin Millan Jul 20, 2022 | 4 min read
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  At every level, Jews must push investors to leave behind fossil fuels

  With Sen. Manchin blocking federal climate legislation, communities must come together to confront the crisis

  By Chloe Maxmin Jul 19, 2022 | 4 min read
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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

  By Eileen B. Hershenov Jul 19, 2022 | 3 min read
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  Jewish New Yorkers should be concerned about the monkeypox vaccine rollout

  The monkeypox surge is only the latest example of marginalized peoples’ needs being ignored by the government

  By Rena Yehuda Newman Jul 19, 2022 | 4 min read
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  The James Webb Telescope looks at the universe through the eyes of God

  Technology lets us see the very moment we have been reading about through all of Jewish history, writes Rabbi Benjamin Resnick

  By Benjamin Resnick Jul 18, 2022 | 3 min read
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  The ADL has lost sight of its mission and turned partisan

  The ADL has thrown its weight behind divisive issues, ignoring its non-political mission to combat bigotry

  By Kathryn Wolf Jul 18, 2022 | 3 min read
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  Most of the victims of Highland Park were Jewish. Why is their memorial filled with Christian imagery?

  Even in death, Jews can become subsumed by the ubiquity of American Christianity

  By Sam Weinberg Jul 15, 2022 | 4 min read
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  Why did a former Oath Keeper leave over Holocaust denialism? Because of his Jewish family.

  Jason Van Tatenhove toured the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the day before his testimony to the Jan. 6 committee

  By Rob Eshman Jul 14, 2022 | 4 min read