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May 27, 2026, 3:56 PM

Shalom Y’all: A Jewish Story Older Than America

If you ask most people where American Jewish history begins, they'll say New York. Some might know about Newport. Almost no one says Georgia. And yet, just five months after the colony of Georgia was founded in 1733, a ship...

Jan 22, 2026, 4:39 PM

Loud for Gaza, Silent on Tehran

Beginning in 2023, protesters across the United States, notably on college campuses, mobilized in large numbers demanding “justice” for Palestinians and an end to the war in Gaza. “In our thousands, in our millions, we are all Palestinians,” they...

Nov 6, 2025, 10:26 PM

When Zohran Mamdani Questions the Jewish State

There’s nothing wrong with criticizing Israel. Most of us do it. But there’s a difference between questioning a government and questioning a nation’s right to exist. That’s where Zohran Mamdani comes in. Now the newly elected mayor of New York, Mamdani...

Oct 24, 2025, 6:45 PM

Gaza 2035

Sometime in the next decade, when the current war has quieted and the immediate urgency has receded, the Gaza Strip will still be there — broken, crowded, angry, and no closer to a resolution than it was twenty years...

Oct 21, 2025, 3:24 AM

The War Is in My Phone

Smoke rises after Israeli air strikes of the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip. Image © Shutterstock.

I don’t live in Israel. There are no sirens outside my window. I don’t check the news to find out if my city still exists. But when I open my phone, it’s as if the war — which is still...

Oct 18, 2025, 12:04 AM

Sylvia Wygoda Changed My Life

Sylvia Wygoda, courtesy of her brother, Mark Wygoda.

When I think about the people who shaped me, I think about Sylvia Wygoda. She didn’t hold public office, cure an incurable disease, or win a Nobel Peace Prize. In fact, she never sought the spotlight at all. She spent...

Oct 14, 2025, 7:51 PM

The Hostages Came Home. Our Illusions Cannot

During Sukkot, we read from Ecclesiastes. "To everything there is a season, and a time to every purpose under heaven." A time to weep and a time to laugh. A time to mourn and a time to dance. This...

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Andrew Logan Lawrence is a former senior correspondent for Campus Reform, where he covered antisemitism in higher education. He is also the founder of the Georgia Jewish Heritage Fund and led the effort to establish Jewish Heritage Month in Georgia in 2011. He lives in Savannah, Ga.

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