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

The erasure of Israeli suffering in literary circles comes as no surprise to a longtime writer, poet and newsletter editor.

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My stepfather, Joe Lieberman, modeled integrity inside and out

“His faith allowed him to connect to others of faith, or to anyone seeking a voice of conviction and principle,” writes the president of Hadar.

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What I told my children when our synagogue was graffitied with a swastika

“This is the complicated, real truth of what it means to be Jewish in America right now,” writes a mother and rabbi’s wife from suburban Philadelphia.

Growing up Jewish on the Upper West Side ‘when housing was a human right’

Why Rabbi Shai Held says love is the cornerstone of Jewish belief and practice

Keith Siegel grew up in North Carolina and moved to Israel. Now he’s a hostage in Gaza.

Purim features a fast before the festival. It’s a ritual I need in these dark times.

How Israel’s Black Panthers radicalized its Mizrahi Jews, and changed the country

How do we celebrate Purim in a time of mourning? We’re not the first Jews to face that question.

For every looted Schiele, there are countless looted Jewish artifacts. They need to be returned to their rightful owners, too.

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