OpEd

Ideas

Why your synagogue, and mine, needs a pickleball court

Empty social halls. America’s fastest growing sport. It’s a match made in heaven.

Ideas

Hanukkah is the holiday that America needs right now

It’s a dark time for democracy, writes a rabbi and policy adviser to the Jewish Federations of North America, but Hanukkah is a reminder that there is always light.

The Sit-Down Ideas

An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government

Michael Koplow of the Isreli Policy Forum fears a collapse of the Palestinian Authority on the West Bank should the far right get its way.

The Sit-Down

A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past

Ideas

When I heard Dave Chappelle’s monologue, all I could think about were my classmates’ Holocaust jokes

Ideas

The exhausting, never-ending job of debunking antisemitic conspiracy theories

Ideas

Comedians are just as capable of antisemitic incitement as political figures. So let’s take Dave Chappelle seriously.

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I’m a Jewish historian and my grandparents ran a deli. Maybe we’re in the same business.

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What I learned about antisemitism from a remarkable new archive about Jewish Civil War soldiers

Ideas

The Kyrie case isn’t about ‘Blacks vs. Jews.’ It’s about bigotry.

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