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What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests

Nick Lemann, dean emeritus of the university’s journalism school, sees a disconnect among parents, students, faculty, donors and the administration.

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Allergic to ‘God-talk’? The former head of a rabbinical seminary wants a word.

Arnold Eisen, former chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary, writes a book facing the “questions of what I actually believe.”

The Sit-Down Ideas

Meet two rabbis who are trying to fight ‘toxic polarization’ — one Jewish text at a time

On the eve of Election Day, Rachel Schmelkin and Michael Holzman ask: Can this democracy be saved?

How a 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron foreshadowed Oct. 7

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Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can

The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

Ross Perlin writes a love letter to New York — in Yiddish and 699 other languages

At 91, Rabbi Yitz Greenberg writes the ‘big book’ his admirers had been waiting for

A historian describes the lessons learned — and ignored — from Hitler’s rise to power

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