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Jan 27, 2022, 8:38 AM

Securing the Fortress of Hope

The Jewish community’s enemies have always known where to hurt us. And as we commemorate International Holocaust Remembrance Day in the shadow of events in Colleyville, Texas, it is painfully clear that those who would hurt us are out...

May 26, 2021, 8:58 PM

The third face of antisemitism

The recent flare in the ongoing, intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict has sparked a sharp rise in antisemitic violence in the United States. Reports of incidents in neighborhoods around New York City and Los Angeles, where Jewish communities have long flourished,...

May 17, 2021, 12:52 AM

Two Truths and a Lie

“Israel has the right to defend itself.” I never thought I would read those words offered by a United States Senator as a clever foil to question the wisdom of America’s support for Israel. But that is precisely how...

Jan 18, 2021, 7:24 AM

More than a coincidence

Every year, Martin Luther King Day seems to correspond with the reading in synagogues around the world of the story of Moses standing before Pharaoh demanding “Let My People Go.” As a person of faith, I do not believe...

Dec 25, 2020, 12:48 AM

Redeeming America and 2020

In his letter-memoir to his son, Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates delivers a rebuke to America and one of many possible epitaphs for 2020: “You may have heard the talk of diversity, sensitivity training, and body cameras. These are all...

Dec 10, 2020, 2:21 AM

Extending our Arms

The holidays tend to come with their own special stories with memorable characters like Ebenezer Scrooge, Hershel (and his Chanukah Goblins), and Buddy the Elf. This year, being different in so many ways, calls for a different kind of...

Nov 16, 2020, 6:05 PM

David and Donald: The Idle Kings

“And it came to pass at the turning of the year, the season when kings go off to battle, that David instead sent Joab….” So begins II Samuel 11, and the story of David and Bathsheba. Idling at home on...

Nov 5, 2020, 4:18 PM

What the Legacy of Yitzhak Rabin Can Teach America the Day After the Election

This morning Americans awoke to the aftermath of one of the most significant elections in American history. And the coming days and weeks may find the country divided against itself, with many on edge fearing maneuvers to undermine the...

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Rabbi Joshua M. Davidson is the Senior Rabbi of Congregation Emanu-El of the City of New York.