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‘Most of all, I will miss his smile’: A rabbi on his last conversation with friend and mentor Rabbi David Ellenson
Rabbi Dr. David Ellenson, a pluralistic Jewish leader, died at the age of 76
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Opinion University presidents waffled in condemning calls for genocide. Jews are on our own as much as ever
To suggest that antisemitic hate speech is problematic only when it violates university policy is a profound failure of leadership
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Opinion All the outrage over Julianna Margulies misses the point
The actor actually speaks for many Jews who feel abandoned by some of their onetime allies
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Looking Forward Red stickers for killed, black for kidnapped: Bearing witness to the massacre at Kibbutz Nir Oz
'It’s like this kibbutz I know, but where is everybody?' asked one hostage's daughter
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Opinion Julianna Margulies is not your average ‘Karen’
The actress' recent racist remarks bely white Jewish women's conditional relationship to the privileges of white femininity
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Opinion How Oct. 7 is reshaping the Zionist — and anti-Zionist — left in the US
The Zionist left is reengaging to broaden the establishment’s big tent — and the anti-Zionist left is staying far outside
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Opinion Henry Kissinger and his original sins of US Middle East policy
Kissinger thwarted several opportunities to end the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for good
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Opinion It’s time for Israel’s far right to go
America’s support for Israel must have limits, and the demands of Jewish extremists for Gaza go beyond them
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Opinion I was shouted down in Oakland for condemning Hamas. The councilmembers did nothing to stop it
City leaders utterly failed to condemn rampant disinformation and antisemitic rhetoric
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Opinion How ketamine therapy helped me process the horrors of Oct. 7
'Coming to': Grappling with Oct. 7 during ketamine therapy
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Opinion The women’s movement has a double standard when sexual violence happens to Jews
Sexual violence happened on Oct. 7. Why are the UN and other human rights groups ignoring it?
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