Jewschool says goodbye to 5776 — and hello to a new year of progressive Jewish activism and opinion. Wishing everyone meaningful Yom Kippur.
Too many American Jews do nothing to address the most important moral issue that our community faces today — the occupation of the Palestinian Territories — and continue to perpetuate it.
Jacob Neusner is credited with creating Jewish Studies — a real academic field, outside the yeshiva, shaping how you and I think about American Jewry.
Hundreds of young Jews protested Jewish federations support for endless occupation as part of IfNotNow’s High Holiday #HeedTheCall actions.
Rachel Ida Buff reflects on Unetaneh tokef over a missing family cat.
Last week tapes surfaced wherein Donald Trump, the man who is running for President, bragged about grabbing women’s genitalia without their consent. (Trump’s defense is
Aaron Hodge Greenberg’s artwork of a Black Lives Matter tallis went viral — here’s why he made it, what it means, and more on art as social protest.
The institutional Jewish response to the Movement for Black Lives has paralleled that of the Chinese American community in the Liang trial.
I would like to try to understand the essence of this day by way of one of Judaism’s oldest, most resilient, most beloved and most reviled prayers: U’Netanah Tokef, the early-Musaf journey into fear and trembling, human powerlessness, and the most desperate plea for Divine mercy.