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  This Rosh Hashanah, give your rabbi a break

  Disagreeing about Israel and Gaza is understandable — but can we please stop screaming at one another?

  By Jay Michaelson

  6 min read
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  The West is finally recognizing a Palestinian state — but many Palestinians are skeptical

  We've seen supposed breakthroughs on Palestinian statehood happen before. Will this one turn out any different?

  By Maha Nassar Sep 22, 2025 | 6 min read
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  I faced network censorship in the heyday of Dick Van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore — the Trump era is different

  On the picket line protesting Jimmy Kimmel's suspension, the stakes couldn't be higher

  By Sybil Sage Sep 22, 2025 | 4 min read

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• Nora Berman ‘Conversion therapy is having a moment’ — what will that mean for LGBTQ+ Jews?

  

• Dan Perry The biggest impediment to peace between Israelis and Palestinians has little to do with Gaza

  

• Emily Tamkin Think the left is politically violent? Young Republicans have a wake-up call for you

  

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  The terrifying Nazi precedent for Jimmy Kimmel’s suspension — and the reasons to stay hopeful

  In 1939, Goebbels ended the careers of five comedians for making fun of Nazis

  By Nora Berman Sep 19, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Will Judaism after Gaza actually be different from Judaism before Gaza?

  The tension between particularism and universalism is fundamental to Jewish tradition

  By Jay Michaelson Sep 19, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Yair Golan: On this Rosh Hashanah, Israel’s reckless government needs to hear the voices of Diaspora Jews

  An Israeli opposition leader says 'Jews around the world need to confidently and boldly speak up now for the Israel they love and need'

  By Yair Golan Sep 18, 2025 | 5 min read
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  As Jimmy Kimmel is pulled off air, ‘this is so much worse than McCarthyism’

  Charlie Kirk's murder is accelerating the White House's battle against cultural and academic freedom

  By Nora Berman Sep 18, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Israel’s central covenant with Jews is in peril like never before

  From ‘There he is’ to ‘Where are they?’

  By Rob Eshman Sep 17, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Netanyahu’s pitch for Israel as ‘super-Sparta’ is a dystopian death wish

  The prime minister's dark new vision would drive the country into ruin

  By Dan Perry Sep 16, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Hollywood’s boycott of Israeli filmmakers is an act of spectacular self-sabotage

  Actors like Emma Stone and Javier Bardem aren't helping Palestinians — they're silencing Netanyahu's harshest critics

  By Rob Eshman Sep 15, 2025 | 4 min read
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  It was the wildest scheme in American Jewish history. 200 years later, should it be remembered as a failure?

  In the two centuries since the founding of Ararat — a self-governing Jewish colony in New York — much has changed, and much has stayed the same

  By Elliot Cosgrove Sep 15, 2025 | 3 min read