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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.

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How the Yiddish writer Chaim Grade’s last novel was rescued from the archives, and wrestled into print

“Sons and Daughters” is being called “the last great Yiddish novel.”

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A Jewish atheist calls out evangelicals for undermining democracy — and Christianity

Jonathan Rauch sees a “MAGA-fied” church that is not holding up its end of the bargain in defending the Constitution.

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What the co-chair of Columbia University’s antisemitism task force says people get wrong about the campus protests

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Allergic to ‘God-talk’? The former head of a rabbinical seminary wants a word.

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

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How a 1929 massacre of Jews in Hebron foreshadowed Oct. 7

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Why writer Etgar Keret wants to get back to Israel as soon as he can

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The progressive Jewish author whose book event was canceled has tough words for both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian debate

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A literary critic on why the ‘settler colonial’ framing is bad for Israel and Palestine

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