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We’re All People Of Color

For this year’s High Holidays, I decided that I would step on that most perilous of third rails and speak with my congregation about racism. My goal was to move the conversation away from the partisan clichés and focus on deeper truths. Racism has the power to erode our basic humanity. We need to recognize […]

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A Key Lost And Found: Agnon 50 Years After The Nobel

December 10, 2016 marked the 50th anniversary of S.Y. Agnon’s 1966 Nobel Prize for Literature, the only such honor ever bestowed upon an Israeli writer. Major anniversaries often occasion a retrospective assessment. How, then, has Agnon’s fiction fared since his Nobel honor? To be sure, Agnon lives on in Israeli cultural and academic circles. All […]

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A White Jewish Reporter, A Black Newspaper And A Century Of Common Causes

CHICAGO (JTA) — Forged at the dawn of the 20th century as both peoples arrived in northern cities, the political coalition between African-Americans and Jewish Americans has endured through defeat as well as victory. Jews and African-Americans were Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s two most enthusiastic constituencies, as they have been for every Democratic candidate for […]

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NYJW Opinion

We’re All People Of Color

A Key Lost And Found: Agnon 50 Years After The Nobel

A White Jewish Reporter, A Black Newspaper And A Century Of Common Causes

Wrong On Maimonides?

Wrong Move For Democrats

Danger Of Ellison

Missing The Point On Coop

Preserve A ‘Jewish Democratic State’

Wants ‘Positive’ Coverage

Remembering Ruth Gruber

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