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Henry Greenspan

Dec 28, 2023, 7:50 AM

Sleeping with Kafka

There is nothing I can do. It doesn’t matter what sin I committed. Or didn’t. It has been decided. I have to leave.

Neil Gronowetter

Dec 18, 2023, 5:34 AM

Tax the antisemitism out of US universities

Students participate in a protest in support of Palestine and for free speech outside of the Columbia University campus on November 15, 2023, in New York City. (SPENCER PLATT / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)

Closing private checkbooks alone isn’t motivation enough to do the right thing and protect Jewish students

Dec 14, 2023, 4:28 PM

Congressman Raskin: Find your moral conscience

US Rep. Jamie Raskin speaks during the final US House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6 Attack on the US Capitol, on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on December 19, 2022. (Mandel NGAN / AFP)

The US Rep’s call to stop the operation in Gaza reveals a profound failure to appreciate Israel’s current existential crisis

Dec 13, 2023, 3:54 PM

A new Anne Frank moment

Anne Frank. (via Jewish News)

Jewish educators must teach our youth to be confident and competent in their Jewish selves and in how they relate to Israel

Dec 12, 2023, 11:55 PM

Antisemitism at Rice University is not just real, it’s prevalent

(courtesy)

I've been a professor here for 30 years and discovering how mainstream the double standard is has been a rude awakening

Lori Silberman Brauner

Dec 12, 2023, 6:55 AM

Why I’m keeping my son in Israel as a war rages on

Volunteering to pick fruit at Kibbutz Gvulot.

He is receiving an education and absorbing values far more important than anything he could learn here in New Jersey

Dec 8, 2023, 12:42 PM

Is the American Jewish success story ending?

Synagogue of Congregation Ohab Zedek built in the Moorish Revival in New York City. (demerzel21/iStock)

It’s not just a passing campus trend – data shows that the US may be turning into a dangerous place for Jews

Dec 7, 2023, 5:19 PM

Each candle ushering a new light into a depraved world

With celebrations canceled or muted, we will not be intimidated – the world needs every single light

Dec 1, 2023, 12:58 AM

They turned us into monsters

A surfer carrying her board walks past posters, towels and flip-flops that are part of a protest organized by the Australian Jewish community at Bondi Beach in Sydney on November 2, 2023 to highlight the plight of hostages held by Hamas (David Gray / AFP)

The war is desensitizing us and our children to horror. Can our increased tolerance to antisemitism and murder be reversed?

Emily Bornstein

Nov 28, 2023, 12:31 AM

Keep the Holocaust out of your anti-Israel arguments

Papa displays his tattoo in front of a famous image of his liberation from Auschwitz.

If you believe Israel desecrates the memory of the six million, I can say with confidence that if they were alive today, you'd hate them too

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