Ideas

Ideas

When Dr. Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel taught my dad to pray with his feet

The chancellor of the Jewish Theological Seminary remembers when her father, a rabbi, joined the March on Washington, and the sermon he gave on moral clarity.

Ideas

Jewish liturgy includes a curse against our enemies. We can be OK with that.

Praying that an enemy be stopped is not the same as calling for its destruction, writes the the CEO of the Hadar Institute.

Ideas

In hopeless times, we need to the courage to speak up — and to listen

Belief in the possibility of change sets the Israelites on the path to freedom, writes the executive director of Hillel Germany.

What Jews are feeling now is an inheritance of values — and trauma

The best Jewish books I read in 2023

In these last months of 2023, I have noticed the Jewish ancestors in me more than ever

This day of communal Kaddish, enacted after the Holocaust, is just right for this moment

What is antisemitism? At a Jewish studies conference, scholars use the archives as a guide — and a warning

The pro-Israel case for a negotiated end to the war in Gaza

My family history makes me too progressive for the Zionists and too Zionist for the progressives

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