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Shadi Ariella Farahi

Apr 17, 2025, 3:35 PM

I live in an airport

Tel Aviv gives everyone the answer they need. It's where Western freedoms meet Middle Eastern hospitality and misfits are welcome

Apr 17, 2025, 9:17 AM

Even Trump understood: Netanyahu is not Israel

Sometimes it takes a child to shout out that the emperor has no clothes. In this case, the call came from the President of the United States

Rachel Steinhardt

Apr 16, 2025, 4:27 PM

From one Jewish home to another: Finding Judaica for LA fire victims

(Public domain)

It wasn't about saving money, but about connection and meaning. Or, as one woman said as she spotted the mezuzahs: 'I don’t have a front door yet, but I will'

Apr 15, 2025, 7:15 PM

There is no Holocaust in Gaza

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The industrialized extermination of a people targeted solely for their identity is not the same as a war started by Hamas terrorists aiming for the same thing

Pamela S. Nadell

Apr 15, 2025, 4:55 PM

The NEH has helped scholars tell important Jewish stories. What now?

The National Endowment for the Humanities has historically funded scholarship in the humanities. (Getty Images)

If the Trump administration cared so much about antisemitism, it wouldn't go after the National Endowment for the Humanities

Nathanael Andrade

Apr 13, 2025, 3:09 PM

Who killed Jesus, the Jews or the Romans?

Ecce homo by Antonio Ciseri, circa 1860 to circa 1880 (PD via Wikimedia)

It was Pontius Pilate who ordered the crucifixion, but early Christian literature shifted the blame from him to Jews. Here's why

Adele Stowe-Lindner

Apr 13, 2025, 2:22 PM

Why I was at yoga bright and early after a late-night Seder

Macaroons, courtesy of the author, 2025.

My teacher's words apply equally to my yoga practice and to my Jewish identity: With a strong foundation, you can take risks and go farther

Apr 12, 2025, 1:44 AM

How to legalize terrorism in 106 pages

Riverway Law - L-R lawyers Franck Magennis, Farhad Ansari and Daniel Grutters. (Jewish News/X)

If you appear in court with an application signed by the first chairman of the Hamas Political Bureau, you are the terrorist

Apr 11, 2025, 8:33 PM

A holiday of freedom in the land of captivity

Israeli soldiers walk ahead of Palestinians who carry their belongings and were displaced by an Israeli military operation that evacuated the Jenin refugee camp in the West Bank on Jan. 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Those who are unwilling to confront the moral and legal implications of the occupation are not truly celebrating freedom

Apr 11, 2025, 5:55 PM

Liberate yourself from the political definitions of yesterday

More than 70% of Israelis, both Left and Right, don't want power concentrated in the hands of the few; it's time for a new paradigm and new leadership

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