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My sister’s experience at Barnard has taught me to pick a college where I will feel safe

Columbia University isn’t the same place where her grandparents once thrived, writes a high school junior.

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A history of a pivotal era in Palestine wins a top Jewish book prize

Oren Kessler’s “Palestine 1936” tells the “story of two nationalisms.”

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators surround a Jewish man at a protest outside Columbia University, in Manhattan, April 18, 2024. (Luke Tress)

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An open letter to the Columbia University Gaza war protesters from a pro-Palestinian activist in Israel

Student activists are denying Jews the rights and dignity that they seek for Palestinians, writes a rabbi, author and Columbia alumna.

We in the Israel-politics ‘sandwich generation’ need our Jewish institutions to change how they define antisemitism

The death of Brooklyn Dodger great Carl Erskine closes a chapter in Jewish history

An Indiana court ruled that Jews have a religious liberty right to abortion. Here’s why that matters.

To mark our brokenness this Passover, let’s scale back the matzah on our seder tables

How a 100-year-old law changed American immigration policy to this day

Literature celebrates nuance. So why does the book world feel so one-sided on Israel?

Joe Lieberman's kids

My stepfather, Joe Lieberman, modeled integrity inside and out

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