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The ‘queer, disabled’ Zionist who challenged the conventions of Israel’s founders

May 22, 2022

What Putin’s talking about when he talks about ‘denazification’

February 28, 2022

John Oliver just celebrated ‘Look for the Union Label,’ a ’70s labor jingle with deep Jewish roots

November 16, 2021

The new chair of Yad Vashem wants to build a ‘firewall’ between politics and Holocaust remembrance. Can he?

November 9, 2021

A New York family is reunited with an heirloom Bible thought lost in the Holocaust

October 20, 2021

What the Tree of Life shooting revealed about American Jewry

October 19, 2021

We may be talking about Gary Shteyngart’s botched circumcision for a long time

October 11, 2021

Noah’s ark is one weird bedtime story

October 8, 2021

No one lost their Jewish last name at Ellis Island. But we gained a safe haven.

September 13, 2021

Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

June 22, 2021

NYC’s mayoral candidates haven’t said much about Jews or Israel. The Pew study suggests why.

May 21, 2021

A new Pew survey comes out today. Here’s how studies like it have shaped 3 decades of Jewish life.

May 11, 2021

Sheldon Silver, former NY Assembly speaker, ordered back to prison, sources say

May 6, 2021

Hate crimes see 73% rise in NYC, with Asians and Jews most targeted

May 6, 2021

NY man convicted of threatening lawmakers railed against ‘Zionist Occupied Government’

April 29, 2021

Top NYC mayoral candidates vie for haredi Orthodox endorsements

April 28, 2021

Portal for federal grants will no longer launch on Shabbat, following complaints

April 25, 2021

Brooklyn man, 19, charged with breaking into Capitol on Jan. 6

April 22, 2021

NY judge killed in hit and run while vacationing in Florida

April 12, 2021

Yehuda Ben-Yishay, Israeli psychologist who pioneered treatment for brain trauma, dies at 88

April 12, 2021

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez meets with top NYC Jewish group for first time since assuming office

April 6, 2021

Morris Dickstein, literary critic and public intellectual, dies at 81

March 30, 2021

A ‘Nazi love story’ about a mass murderer who got away

March 30, 2021

Germany funds vaccination drive for Holocaust survivors

March 23, 2021

Jewish Theological Seminary names first woman as dean of its rabbinical school

March 22, 2021

NJ Jewish paper apologizes for joke about shooting Palestinians

March 22, 2021

The COVID relief package includes $2.75B for private schools. Orthodox Jewish groups thank Chuck Schumer.

March 15, 2021

Yeshiva University men’s basketball is on a 35-game winning streak

March 3, 2021

What Jewish comedians made of Michael Che’s Israel Joke

February 24, 2021

Is the Jewish deli the new synagogue?

February 11, 2021

NYC mayor says city will make sure Holocaust survivors get vaccine

February 11, 2021

Meet the Jewish librarian who spied on New York Nazis in the 1930s

February 10, 2021

Jewish inmate’s COVID-19 death cited in effort to get vaccines to NY prisoners

February 4, 2021

Rabbi Stephen Lerner, 80, brought over 1,800 students to practice of Judaism

February 1, 2021

Times Square’s new ‘Margaritaville Resort’ to include a first-floor synagogue

January 28, 2021

Clergy ask why New York’s prisoners aren’t on priority list for vaccines

January 28, 2021

More than a dozen Jews, but not Sheldon Silver, among Donald Trump’s last-minute pardons

January 20, 2021

How Valerie Harper’s Rhoda embodied a very Jewish type

September 3, 2019

What Trump really (maybe) meant by calling Jewish Democrats ‘disloyal’

August 21, 2019

Trader Joe’s is not your synagogue. But what if?

August 9, 2019

It can’t be anti-Semitism if you’re not an anti-Semite, right? Right?

July 26, 2019

The kid in me wants another shot at the moon

July 18, 2019

Why did Kellyanne Conway ask a Jewish reporter about his ethnicity?

July 17, 2019

Donald Trump and the perils of loving Israel just a little too much

July 16, 2019

Top Trump officials headline conference focusing on the ‘new anti-Semitism’

July 15, 2019

Lucette Lagnado, whose prize-winning memoir recalled her family’s Egyptian-Jewish past, dies at 63

July 11, 2019

How Mad magazine taught me to think like a furshlugginer Jewish intellectual

July 8, 2019

Every question-and-answer period at every Jewish event ever

June 17, 2019

Moe Berg’s life as ballplayer and spy, this time as a documentary

June 3, 2019

Politico’s ‘cheap’ shot at Bernie Sanders

May 28, 2019

Is ‘goy’ a slur?

April 22, 2019

The Passover kitniyot argument isn’t worth a hill of beans

April 9, 2019

US environmental group Hazon wants an Israeli right-wing upstart to stop using the same name

March 8, 2019

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu can’t get enough of each other. Here’s why

March 1, 2019

Trump invokes Israel’s ‘wall’ in saying he has agreed to reopen government

January 25, 2019

American-born biologist to head Israel’s Ben-Gurion University

December 31, 2018

How Facebook monitors harmful content: 5 takeaways

December 28, 2018

Amos Oz, a ‘saintly intellectual’ who turned Israel’s national reality into art

December 28, 2018

‘I’m Vietnamese, I’m Jewish.’ And he is performing Christmas Eve at a Chinese restaurant.

December 21, 2018

40 years ago, a refusenik made art of the Soviet Jewish tragedy. At 82, he is seeing its first English translation.

December 18, 2018

Netanyahu’s upcoming visit to Brazil marks the end of an era of strained ties

December 18, 2018

Robert Arnow, NY philanthropist and real estate developer, dies at 94

December 18, 2018

Oscar turns its back on latest Israeli film

December 18, 2018

Pro-Palestinian groups claim victory as New England police pull out of training program in Israel

December 9, 2018

A history of the radical Jewish feminists and the one subject they never talked about

December 7, 2018

My day job is translating from Jewish to English. Gevalt!

November 27, 2018

New York’s ‘Snowvember’ and the kindness of friends and strangers

November 16, 2018

NY Times’ Facebook investigation unearths George Soros, ADL and Chuck Schumer controversies

November 15, 2018

Yes, anti-Semitism is a problem again. No, it is not 1939.

November 5, 2018

What Israeli Chief Rabbi David Lau really said about the Pittsburgh shooting

October 30, 2018

Smoked meat without cherry soda? Canadians say ‘Thanks, Trump.’

October 19, 2018

Why Roseanne Barr and Shmuley Boteach need each other

October 17, 2018

Who’s sorry now: The top 10 apologies of the Jewish year

September 17, 2018

Too few Jews, Pew! Where are the ‘secular maximalists’? The Sunday brunchers?

August 31, 2018

A Neil Simon play that helps explain how we got to Donald Trump

August 28, 2018

Deportation of Nazi ignites a fight between right and left. You’re surprised?

August 21, 2018

People are talking about whether Trump used the N-word. A Breitbart writer wants to talk about hip-hop.

August 15, 2018

If Israel has such bad PR, why does it remain so popular?

August 13, 2018

The non-misogynist, non-hypocritical case for Jewish continuity. With music.

August 6, 2018

Richard Siegel left behind a Jewish denomination: Catalogism

July 17, 2018

How I learned to stop worrying and love an Israeli dance company

July 11, 2018

Holocaust comparisons are muddying the immigration debate

June 19, 2018

Your guide to Shavuot, now with 50 percent less facts

May 18, 2018

Mahmoud Abbas’ remarks on the Holocaust explain why two-state solution is dying

May 2, 2018

The ADL’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad week

April 30, 2018

How JTA reported on Martin Luther King Jr.’s assassination

April 4, 2018

Don’t eat off the seder plate, and other tips for non-Jews attending their first seder

March 23, 2018

‘Nobody is talking about anti-Semitism.’ You’re kidding, right?

March 19, 2018

What a Vietnam-born artist can teach us about Jewish memory

March 13, 2018

Who is King Cyrus, and why is Netanyahu comparing him to Trump?

March 7, 2018

Why Wayne LaPierre’s CPAC speech freaked out Jews and heartened anti-Semites

February 27, 2018

Thank you for supporting the American Friends of The Sheldon & Miriam Adelson Embassy of the United States in Israel!

February 23, 2018

Here’s why we report on the Jewish victims of general tragedies

February 19, 2018

Mike Huckabee says US should follow Israel’s lead to prevent mass shootings. Twitter takes issue.

February 15, 2018

Seven works of fiction set at Jewish sleepaway camp

February 13, 2018

What’s in a name? Reconstructionist Judaism is finding out.

February 6, 2018

Does the Obama-Farrakhan photo matter? Does anything?

January 30, 2018

Female reporters were kept separate from men during Mike Pence’s Western Wall visit

January 23, 2018

Jared Kushner’s Jewish high school wants students to advocate for Israel. That’s a bad thing?

January 19, 2018

Florida seniors are getting self-driving cars? Gevalt!

January 12, 2018

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