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On Sukkot, If You Build It, It May Fall

The holiday is intended to convey the delicate balance between protection and vulnerability

‘Avoidance is no longer an option’: This Yom Kippur, rabbis across the country focused their sermons on racial injustice

With no shortage of current events to mine, spiritual leaders chose to call on their white congregants to act rather than merely acknowledge racism in America.

What We Can’t Learn from Ginsburg’s Friendship with Scalia

When “let’s just agree to disagree” is a recipe for moral surrender.

Culture

Bibi Shapiro, the 6-year-old whose ‘Avinu Malkeinu’ went viral, sang at Central Synagogue’s Yom Kippur services

New York

Columbia University Students Pass College’s First-Ever BDS Referendum

Politics

Joe Biden likens Donald Trump’s rhetoric to that of Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels

Culture

A pandemic judgment day: Yom Kippur arrives with COVID-19 cases on the rise

Google Images search results for "Jewish baby stroller" as of September 25, 2020. (Screenshot)

United States

A Google search for ‘Jewish baby strollers’ yields anti-Semitic images. An extremist campaign may be to blame.

Culture

‘Tehran’ is a groundbreaking Israeli spy show about immigrant identity

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