Israel’s TikTok Problem
Why has TikTok become a hotbed of anti-Israel and antisemitic content, and what does it tell us about brewing global conflicts.
Harvard, SNCC, and an Antisemitic Cartoon
How did Harvard students end up using a decades old antisemitic cartoon in their anti-Israel activism?
Wartime Diary
Since October, in Gaza, hundreds of thousands of people are on the move in the rain, mud, and fire. They go from one space that is not home to another space that is not home; none of them safe. Where will they shelter? To what can they return?
Washington’s Saving Shield
Shortly after the Revolutionary War, a synagogue in New York gathered to praise George Washington in extraordinarily biblical language.
Atah Manhig: A Life in Reform Judaism
Lance Sussman's book of sermons are a window into Reform Judaism and a beacon of American optimism.
Tools of Hope: Finding Guidance from Rabbi Ovadiah Yosef
The Jewish muscle-memory that shapes our collective intuition, guides our response to calamity, and gives us hope that we will overcome this, too.
Ruby Sees Red
"I’m still trying to wake up from this nightmare. I walk in the streets. I see parents with babies. I can’t look. I walk in Riverside Park, I see an older man hugging his granddaughter, and I almost start crying. We have been forced back into Jewish history, into the bloody raw part of Jewish history."
Letter from Neukölln, Berlin
"Although the warning to hide invoked memories from Berlin in its darkest days, we refused to be afraid of who we are."
Unfinished Rock
Why is the last stanza of Ma'oz Tzur unlike all other stanzas?
Finding Gold
Herbert Gold spoke quickly, telling ancient stories of friendship with Saul Bellow and run ins with Philip Roth. Between gusts of conversation, he ambled around, wielding his walker so nimbly that it seemed like a form of exercise.