by Joelle Novey Corrections Three decades after my bat mitzvah All of my Hebrew school teachers, youth group counselors, rabbis, and that lady with the
30 articles articulating why the ADL is no longer a legitimate civil rights organization representative of American Jews and how Greenblatt and his organization have turned their backs on both civil rights and the sizable portion of the American Jewish community that identifies as progressive
(for Simcha, because he asked) There has been much writing these past days about Israel’s choice to strike Iran, and Iran’s response. What I have
Guest post by Mollie Leibowitz. “It could have been any one of us.” My classmate read aloud the opening of the email from the Jewish
It was late June, 2004, my first summer working at The Seeds of Peace Camp on the shores of Pleasant Lake in Otisfield, Maine. “I’m
The further one gets from a moment in history, including a catastrophe, the more one begins to think about it comparatively. The Holocaust is a
On Israel Independence Day 1997 Rav Shagar addressed the students in his yeshiva Siah Yitzhak in Efrat on the West Bank. His sermon was published
In 1906, two years after Herzl’s death, a year after the first Russian revolution, and a few years since Aaron Shmuel Tamares (1869-1931) returned despondent
by Akiva Lichtenberg While 2024 was celebrated as the year when more than half the world’s population voted in national elections, in 2025 Jews around
This strategic alliance with the far-right has horrifying consequences. It isolates Jews from other marginalized communities, makes us complicit in systems of oppression, and erodes our credibility as a people committed to justice. It also doesn’t make us safer.
