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May 19, 2022, 7:52 AM

How Social Media Fuels Antisemitism

According to the Anti-Defamation League, 2021 was a low point in the history of American antisemitism. The organization tallied 2,717 antisemitic incidents for that year, the most since it began collecting data in 1979. In the newly published book "Antisemitism on Social Media,"...

May 12, 2022, 7:37 AM

How Did The Queen Of Sheba Come To Be Seen As Black?

Halle Berry played her in a 1995 made-for-TV movie. On her album, Black Is King, Beyoncé described herself as an heir to her legacy. And a recent article at the online Jewish feminist site Alma declared her the “Black Jewish queen … you...

Apr 28, 2022, 7:59 PM

Saving a Nazi Concentration Camp from Being Forgotten

In early 2019, Karen Frostig traveled to Latvia to visit the place where the Nazis had murdered her grandparents. She drove a few miles outside the capital city Riga to the site of the Jungfernhof concentration camp, where nearly 4,000 Jews were...

Apr 6, 2022, 12:36 AM

Who was Elijah and Why Do Jews Open the Door for Him on Passover?

Every Passover, Jews set an extra cup of wine on the dinner table and open the door for the enigmatic prophet Elijah, hoping he will enter. An evolving symbol of hope and redemption in Judaism over the centuries, Elijah’s return...

Mar 24, 2022, 1:51 AM

What does the Bible tell us about shame?

An early 16th-century painting of Adam and Eve by the German painter Lucas Cranach the Elder./Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

In the Hebrew imagination, shame was a state of physical suffering on a continuum with death

Mar 12, 2022, 9:33 AM

A Jewish Prayer for Ukraine

This prayer for Ukraine, written by Reuven Kimelman, Brandeis University's professor of classical rabbinic literature, is inspired by the liturgy of Rosh Hashanah. That liturgy prays for recognizing the one God and the unity of humanity through the elimination of tyranny....

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Lawrence Goodman is the editor of The Jewish Experience and a staff member at Brandeis University's Office of Communications.