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Opinion Take it from someone who’s both Black and Jewish: Ta-Nehisi Coates weaponizes race to spread antisemitism
No, it’s not racist to speak out against The Message.
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Opinion I study the relationship between Zionism and Judaism. Oct. 7 may have changed it forever
Israel has become a defining fact of Jewish life for Zionist and anti-Zionist Jews alike
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Opinion I made aliyah right before Oct. 7. Here’s why I stayed.
To be truly Israeli means to live with danger every day — taking on that burden is a privilege
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Opinion The genocide in Darfur didn’t go away, but the Jewish community’s attention did
'Never Again' has become never mind.
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Opinion What makes a ‘Jewish’ politician?
From Jewish summer camp to the struggle for Soviet Jewry, Zev Yaroslavsky’s new memoir describes the experiences that shaped his values
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Opinion Of course Dianne Feinstein doesn’t want to go. Neither did Moses.
Jewish tradition has something to say about towering figures who don’t want to leave the tower
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Yiddish World Striking illustrations set in a timeless shtetl
Joseph Budko created his art in the golden age for illustrated Jewish books between 1910 and 1940.
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Culture Introducing the Forward 125: The American Jews who shaped our world
Here are the people who’ve made headlines and history each year since the Forward was born
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