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  The Passover lesson we need most after devastating years of war

  Our empathy has been depleted, but we need it more than ever

  By Ben Krull

  3 min read
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  Jewish communities can help save trans lives — here’s how

  Clergy from all movements are coming together to insist on stronger policies to support LGBTQ+ Jews

  By Eliana Kayelle and Jonah Dov Pesner Mar 31, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Why the ‘No Kings’ marches reminded me of Germany in 1933

  Americans should heed what happened in Germany before the Weimar Republic’s final parliamentary election

  By Terrence Petty Mar 31, 2026 | 5 min read

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• Alyssa Katz What I learned at a Holocaust survivors’ Purim party

  

• Rob Eshman Gavin Newsom isn’t waffling on Israel — he’s voicing sensible ideas in an era of outrage

  

• Dan Perry An abominable new Israeli law is a death warrant for democracy

  

• Emily Tamkin We must rewrite the rulebook for fighting antisemitism — or conspiracists like Joe Kent will win the narrative wars

  

• Jay Michaelson Passover’s 4 cups of meaning

  

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  Passover’s 4 cups of meaning

  The Seder offers a model for how to resist the ‘Meaning Crisis’ without falling into nihilism or hyper-traditionalism

  By Jay Michaelson Mar 31, 2026 | 6 min read
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  An abominable new Israeli law is a death warrant for democracy

  Mandating the death penalty for Palestinian terrorists will weaken Israel in profound ways

  By Dan Perry Mar 30, 2026 | 4 min read
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  The moral degradation of Israel’s far right is even worse than you think

  And a horrifying speech this week proved it

  By Dan Perry Mar 27, 2026 | 3 min read
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  The Orthodox world has abandoned its values by abandoning Palestinians

  We must correct the course for the sake of Israelis and Palestinians alike — and the sake of Judaism itself

  By Rachel Landsberg and Esther Sperber Mar 27, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Israel’s best-case scenario in Iran may also be its worst

  What happens to a country that sees strength as the only way to get things done?

  By Nadav Ziv Mar 27, 2026 | 4 min read
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  Gavin Newsom isn’t waffling on Israel — he’s voicing sensible ideas in an era of outrage

  Questions about 'Zionism’ and ‘apartheid’ tongue-tie the California governor

  By Rob Eshman Mar 25, 2026 | 3 min read
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  Israel is gleefully copying Nazi imagery in the propaganda war with Iran

  New social media posts are a reminder that far-right Zionism shares roots with other forms of nationalism

  By Joel Swanson Mar 25, 2026 | 5 min read
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  We’re forgetting the lessons of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire

  States have been gradually rolling back the protections that activists like Pauline Newman and Clara Lemlich bravely fought for

  By Cathryn J. Prince Mar 24, 2026 | 4 min read