Ideas

A Black artist and a Jewish artist mock the KKK in a new Jewish Museum show

Works by Philip Guston and Trenton Doyle Hancock suggest the possibilities — and limitations — of satirical art.

Ideas

I research disappearing small-town Jewish communities. I’m finding the best of America.

Jews played crucial roles in shaping the civic, cultural and economic landscapes beyond the big cities, writes a historian and writer based in Rochester, New York.

Ideas

My survivor parents taught me to loathe Germany. Was I ready to forgive?

A poet, raised among refugees in New York’s Washington Heights, confronts the ghosts that inhabited his childhood.

We asked Jewish leaders about their priorities under a second Trump term

How Oct. 7 gave me the toughness I’ll need under a second Trump presidency

When the Nazis attacked synagogues on Kristallnacht, they were targeting Judaism’s heart and soul

If Jewish unity means accepting bigotry and dehumanization, count me out

This election, I finally understand the undecided Jewish voter

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

Why I wrote a prayer to be said on the Shabbat before Election Day

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