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Nov 3, 2026, 2:17 AM

Don’t Boo. Vote.

An Election Day manifesto to My Black and Jewish brothers and sisters in America There comes a time in the life of a nation when its citizens must decide whether their convictions are worth more than their complaints, whether their...

Oct 30, 2026, 1:12 PM

Shabbat Shalom: My First Visit to a Synagogue

How a Friday evening in Atlanta introduced me to Jewish communal life—and why the date will always mean something to me There are certain dates in one’s life that acquire an additional layer of meaning with the passage of time....

Richard D. Gitlin

Oct 25, 2026, 11:04 PM

Why Is Antisemitism Still Socially Acceptable?

In September, I wrote in The Times of Israel about how American Jews arrived at our present predicament. We failed to recognize how profoundly our environment had changed. Now comes the harder question. What can we do about it?...

Shoshana Kohn-Kutny

Oct 21, 2026, 9:51 AM

I loved El-Sayed’s answer. I wouldn’t vote for him

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I loved what he said Last weekend, at a town hall in a red Michigan county, a guy named Tommy (who, it turns out, used to work for Josh Hawley) asked Abdul El-Sayed if he'd disavow the Muslim Brotherhood. El-Sayed...

Michael Feldstein

Oct 20, 2026, 2:57 AM

Jackie Robinson, Stamford, and the Jewish Community

Credit: Gemini

My father was a passionate Brooklyn Dodgers fan, and his favorite player of all time was Jackie Robinson. Growing up, I heard endless stories about Jackie’s dynamic baserunning (he stole home 19 times in his career!), his elite plate...

Richard D. Gitlin

Oct 14, 2026, 4:44 AM

Tikkun Olam Begins at Home

I am not a rabbi or a scholar of Judaism. I am simply an American Jew who has watched with growing unease as Tikkun Olam, repairing the world, has become one of the defining ideas of Reform Judaism. There is...

Oct 1, 2026, 8:14 PM

What a Different Pro-Israel Position Actually Requires

In the first essay in this series, I argued that one reason Israel has become so difficult to discuss in Black political circles is that “pro-Israel” is often treated as though it describes a single political position. It does...

Steve Glickstein

Oct 1, 2026, 5:45 PM

Security Guards Can’t Change Hearts

Security Guards Can't Change Hearts
Created by Steve Glickstein with AI

A guard can stop someone at the door. A guard can't change what they believe about Jews. We need guards more than ever. But if guards are all we have, we're only surviving. Every time I enter or leave a...

Sep 25, 2026, 5:24 PM

Black Lives Matter and the Test of Black-Jewish Solidarity

One of the easiest ways to misunderstand Black-Jewish relations is to compare the Civil Rights Movement at its most idealized with Black Lives Matter at its most controversial. The comparison usually runs like this: in the 1960s, Jews stood...

Sep 18, 2026, 6:25 PM

There Is No Single Black Democratic Position on Israel

What Black political diversity reveals about Israel, Gaza and coalition politics One sentence in this series deserves an essay of its own: there is no single “Jewish position,” and there is no single “Black position.” The point is easy to...

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