Ideas

A family memoir is about the search for a Jewish homeland, from Zion to Texas

Rachel Cockerell’s “Melting Point” touches on Zionism, assimilation and a short-lived effort to divert Jewish immigrants from Ellis Island to Galveston.

Teen Fellowship Ideas

I’m half-Jewish, but my Jewish life is as full as it gets

“While I may not fit others’ ideas of a Jewish teen born to Jewish parents,” writes a JTA Teen Fellow, “I will not let their comments affect my journey.”

Ideas

The Francis I knew: a warrior against antisemitism, a sometimes impolitic critic of Israel

The interreligious affairs director at American Jewish Committee remembers a Catholic-Jewish “lovefest,” despite some harsh words from the pope on Israel’s war in Gaza.