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A scholar sees a common root for antisemitism and racism: ‘Christian supremacy’

Fordham University’s Magda Teter says “the Jews will not replace us” ideology of the racist right is a legacy of church doctrine.

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Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch

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Why a liberal Zionist rabbi isn’t taking to the streets over Israel’s judicial reform plan

Rabbi Ammiel Hirsch has spoken out against the current government, but says there are limits to Diaspora criticism of the Jewish state.

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‘The Jewish Catalog’ turbocharged DIY Judaism. 50 years later, one of its editors is back with a ‘bookend.’

Fifty years after “The Jewish Catalog,” Michael Strassfeld sets out to describe the purpose of ritual and observance.

A history of Mel Brooks as a ‘disobedient Jew’

How Jewish comedy found religion, from Philip Roth to ‘Broad City’

How the Holocaust is remembered in the land of Anne Frank

What American Jews fight about when they fight about Israel

A law professor worries Israel could become the next Hungary

An Israel analyst’s best- and worst-case scenarios for the new right-wing government

A Black writer explores how Germany remembers its ‘unthinkable’ past

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