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Valerie Robin Clayman

Oct 27, 2026, 5:37 PM

Thanks to Boy George, We Will Dance Again. Again.

Two months ago, I wrote an essay about Boy George’s AI-assisted track We Will Dance Again. While I was grateful to finally hear a song of support for the Jews and our right to self-determination, I was disappointed in...

Oct 20, 2026, 3:00 AM

The Progressive Silver Lining Around Israel’s Political Cloud

Sunlight breaks through the clouds over Jerusalem. (Photo: Yair Haklai / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0)

Years ago, my oldest daughter—now a human rights lawyer—spent 8th grade in an Ultra-Orthodox elementary school in Atlanta (don’t ask; life takes strange turns). Rav Mordechai Eliyahu was going to be visiting the school, and the girls were making...

Oct 18, 2026, 4:09 AM

Embrace the Rainbow

Much ink has been spilled, and many voices have grown hoarse, over the LGBTQ+ community's use of the rainbow as a symbol of its journey and the colors of its flag. What chutzpah, some say, for "those people" to appropriate...

Oct 17, 2026, 9:26 AM

A Few Thoughts About Contemporary Politics

Howdy and shalom. We are in the season of politics in Israel and in Canada, and the US midterm elections are coming up. Sadly, social research determined some time ago that most people trust politicians less than they trust used...

Paul James Kearns

Oct 14, 2026, 3:13 PM

Greens See Red: The Black and “White” of Zionism

The political dust has settled somewhat after the UK Green Party’s adoption of the motion Zionism as Racism. It may yet be reversed. What got lost in the story were the most revealing words of the Green Party’s conference: “a single...

Oct 1, 2026, 9:56 AM

Strategic Antisemitism™

* Sometimes hatred isn’t an emotion. It’s a business model. Sometimes prejudice isn’t a principle. It’s a strategy. Antisemitism has always been unusually adaptable to the ambitions of the people exploiting it. I call this Strategic Antisemitism™. Scholars might call it instrumental antisemitism....

Sep 27, 2026, 10:15 AM

The Stroller Test

If you believe in civil rights, ask yourself where in the Middle East you would actually want to live I came up with the stroller test talking to my friend Kim, a law professor. I had recently been at her daughter’s...

Jaclyn S. Clark

Sep 26, 2026, 12:28 PM

The Mob Ate the COVID-Conscious Lesbian Bar. Pick-Me Jews, Take Note.

A Massachusetts lesbian bar with a mandatory mask policy went mask-optional one night a week to keep the lights on. Its own community accused it of being complicit in a “mass disabling event.” The Jews who keep trying to...

Michelle Philippon

Sep 25, 2026, 6:49 PM

What this former evangelical found in a Reform synagogue

After growing up in megachurches, I took a job at a Reform synagogue and discovered a very different way of thinking about God, sin, belonging — and myself

Sep 24, 2026, 11:49 PM

Benjamin Netanyahu and the Politics of Self-Preservation

Now that the government’s failures have become impossible to ignore, even for many of Netanyahu’s staunchest supporters, some are beginning to see the end of the Netanyahu era in Israeli politics. This has prompted a growing number of voices...

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