OpEd

Ideas

I left the US fearing antisemitism under Trump. Oct. 7 has me rethinking my place in Canada, too.

Support for Israel is always a dividing line in Canadian progressive spaces, writes a U.S. expat who hoped to feel safe in the Great White North.

Ideas

Remembering Irving Levine, an AJC official who saw the future of identity politics

The Brooklyn native understood the grievances of “white ethnics,” writes a former colleague at the American Jewish Committee.

Ideas

Why the Conservative movement is changing our approach to interfaith marriage

A culture of disapproval did not generally dissuade individuals in their marriage choices, writes the CEO of the movement’s rabbinic and congregational arms.

Ideas

Old songs have new meanings after Oct. 7 — and new music helps the heartbroken like me

The Sit-Down

When ‘nice Jewish boys and girls’ first took up the cause of Palestinian rights

Ideas

My ‘transgressive’ Holocaust novel is still stirring debate, 20 years later

Ideas

I’m an Israeli artist of Moroccan descent. Is the Holocaust my story to tell?

Ideas

When Elie Wiesel came to my summer camp, and what he taught me about speaking the unspeakable

Ideas

When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet

Ideas

Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that.

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