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From Rachel Goldberg-Polin, we all heard the piercing cry of Jewish motherhood

For 330 days, we witnessed Rachel Goldberg-Polin show the world the love between a Jewish mother and son, writes a mother and author.

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Rachel is weeping for her child: In Hersh’s grieving mother, we see our matriarch

Today’s parallels with ancient Jewish trauma are overwhelming — and even the Bible falls short, a rabbi writes.

The Sit-Down Ideas

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

“We want to call that community into account for failing to uphold the values it claims to profess,” says Joshua Leifer.

Jews and Arabs hoped to fill a truck with aid for Gaza civilians. We ended up filling 300.

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

What I learned when a Brooklyn bookstore canceled a discussion of Judaism over my Zionism

I’m a rabbi who wrote a fantasy novel. I couldn’t have done it without inspiration from our sacred past.

As a Holocaust educator, I’ve grappled with same questions Tim Walz explored — and that’s reassuring

I’m a traveling mohel. My colleague’s unprecedented arrest in Ireland has shaken me to my core.

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

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