Lamenting, loving, leveling: A spiritual pathway through this year’s Jewish holidays
Magen David, or Star of David. Photo courtesy of Roman Odinstov/Pexels. By Rabbi AVI WEISS JNS...
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Category: Analysis
North American Jews caught between Zionism and anti-Semitism
By HANAN GREENWOOD JNS “There’s no denying the uptick in anti-Semitism stated Edna Weinstock-Gabay, CEO of Keren Hayesod. Since the onset of the Gaza war, North America has witnessed a surge in anti-Semitic...
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Tucker Carlson and the turning point for right-wing antisemitism
The former “Fox News” host’s platforming of Holocaust denial could blow up the GOP on the...
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Zoom discussion of ‘The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman’ set for Sept. 8
Actress Cicely Tyson played the part of Jane Pittman in the 1974 film, “The Autobiography of Miss...
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America’s ‘self-defeat’ in Afghanistan
An illustrative image of American soldiers in Afghanistan. Image courtesy of DeepAI. By CLIFFORD...
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‘It’s your land’ legally! says French-Canadian attorney
The lawyer and scholar Jacques Gauthier. Photo courtesy of Dave Gordon. By DAVE GORDON JNS ...
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Interesting piece in The New Yorker: Do you know Judge Learned Hand?
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Blinken: Israel has ‘lost sovereignty’ in the north
A fire that was started by missiles launched from Lebanon near She’ar Yashuv in northern Israel,...
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Welcome to the month of Tammuz
By MELINDA RIBNER The Jewish calendar is a roadmap for personal transformation. Just as there are...
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The ‘free Palestine’ disconnect
A pro-Hamas protest encampment on the campus of Columbia University in New York City, April 22,...
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‘Perfect time’ to return to Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’ on 120th Bloomsday
James Joyce’s 1922 novel By MENACHEM WECKER JNS Cultural pilgrims flock to Dublin annually on June...
Read MoreAnother Pesach with Jews under siege
The Haggadah states, “For it was not one enemy alone who rose up against us to destroy us; in every generation, there are those who rise up against us and seek to destroy us.” By JONATHAN TOBIN JNS This is not the first...
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