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Socioeconomic policies ensure diverse campuses — not affirmative action
California, which banned affirmative action in 1996, boasts some of the most diverse college campuses in the country
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Opinion Jews are safer online than other Americans. Is it because we can hide our identity?
It’s possible that Jews are experiencing less online harassment because they are taking steps to stop visibly identifying as Jewish.
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Opinion To fix Wikipedia’s Holocaust denial, we must start by naming names
Anonymity on the do-it-yourself encyclopedia fuels constant misinformation
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Opinion Must your employer accommodate your Shabbat observance? That’s up to the Supreme Court
The decision in Groff v. DeJoy will have a significant impact on American Jews and other religious minorities who require accommodation of their religious practices
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Opinion LGBTQ+ people gained civil rights 10 years ago — thanks to this Jewish lesbian
Remembering Edie Windsor, who paved the way for out and proud Americans like me.
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Opinion Why do so many conversations about Israel exclude more than half of the Jewish population?
The maleness of the American Jewish conversation on Israel is becoming a problem
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Opinion As the Pittsburgh shooter is sentenced to death, remember the lives of his victims
A closer look at the lives lost in the synagogue shooting
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Opinion In their classroom, Torah is a three-ring circus — by design
A new book explores the connections between Jews, the circus and the study of Jewish text
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Opinion Pretending to be a gay Haredi man on TikTok does not help queer Orthodox Jews
Changing hearts and minds requires honest portrayals of Orthodox LGBTQ+ realities
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Opinion The loss of abortion access demands a day of collective mourning
One year into the reversal of Roe v. Wade, it is clear that forced birth takes lives
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Opinion Why I don’t love ‘Jew hate’ as a substitute for ‘antisemitism’
A faddish term falls short in capturing the subtleties of bias, writes a professor of technology and society
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Opinion New York’s Israel Day parade was a shanda — but not because of Mamdani
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Opinion How can I live freely as a Jew in a world where strangers rip my mezuzah off my doorframe?
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Opinion Mamdani has made ample efforts for Jews. How come no one is telling that story?
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