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Who benefits when scholarly and literary and artistic communities engage in purges?
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A songbird and performer says that lately, she’s a chicken looking for courage.
Who benefits when scholarly and literary and artistic communities engage in purges?
The horror of all of the genocides that happen throughout history doesn’t diminish each one’s individuality.
Ever connect Torah study with crafting and painting? Meet the rabbi who teaches sacred text via studio art!
A new book aims to complicate the legacy of the mid-century male writers.
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"In the basement of the synagogue, the Schneider sisters discussed the mechanics of a first kiss."
In "Songs for the Broken-Hearted," Ayelet Tsabari uses the sweeping scope of a novel to reveal the struggles and stories of Yemenite Jews that have remained too long unknown or undervalued on the margins of Jewish history and storytelling.
Coming back to her mom’s after the nights at her dad’s, she “felt like a prisoner of war returning to the homeland.”
I am at a loss as more and more people whom I admire insist that in the face of what they consider a genocide, discussion is complicity.
My experience of living in rural Maine while simultaneously working on an elite college campus disproves many of these stereotypes.
Jews are acting like we are the ones who are being hunted when Palestinians have been utterly dehumanized, with Gaza destroyed and 40,000 dead so far.
I believe that many of my critics didn’t bother to read my essay—it was enough for them to know I was Jewish, that I lived in Israel. Nothing else mattered.
Trust that while I’ve been quiet, I am untangling the knots.
Antisemitism is dependent on noticing the bad things that are happening in the world, and that Jews are suspected to be the shadowy puppeteers behind them.
Addressing antisemitism requires us to build these bridges, to find common ground with other marginalized groups who face different forms of hatred and discrimination.
It scares me how politicians use Jewish people as political pawns, yet how all political parties can feel unsafe for Jewish people right now.