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Everyone wants to ‘free Palestine.’ Who has an actual plan?
The people who will live with the consequences deserve more than a slogan that fits on a protest sign.
 • Iola Kostrzewski
Israel is not ‘the most complex political issue on the planet.’
Hyperbole has turned the Israeli-Palestinian conflict into a contest of moral absolutes. When everything is genocide, apartheid, and absolute evil, what…
 • Joshua Hoffman
An Open Letter to Ed Sheeran
You don’t have to take sides in the Middle East to take responsibility for what happens on your stage.
 • Ellen Ginsberg Simon
The Forgotten History of the Yom Kippur War
More than 50 years later, the Yom Kippur War still has secrets, surprises, and lessons worth uncovering.
 • Vanessa Berg
The Other Ancient Language That Jews Keep Alive
From the destruction of the First Temple to the synagogues of today, Aramaic reminds us that Jewish identity can endure even when everything around us…
 • Joshua Hoffman
Fighting antisemitism is distracting us from something more important.
This Yom Kippur, the question is not simply what we have done wrong, but what we have failed to learn.
 • Bob Goldberg
I was a viral antisemite. Here’s what actually changed my mind.
I helped convince people that Jews were their enemy. Now I want them to understand how wrong I was — and how I found out.
 • Lucas Gage
Reform Judaism has a decision to make.
We have confused one of Judaism’s greatest gifts with Judaism itself.
 • Rabbi David Gerber
A previous war against Jews also called itself ‘anti-Zionism.’
They rebuilt their lives after the Holocaust. Then came the “anti-Zionist” campaign that sounds all too familiar to the one we are witnessing today.
 • Melissa Brodsky
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If you value our work and have the means to do so, please support our mission to help as many people as possible become smarter about Judaism, Israel…
God knows we’re imperfect. Our Judaism can be too.
A Jewish life doesn’t have to be all or nothing. Sometimes, a little is the beginning of a lot.
 • Joshua Hoffman
The real Hitler test is happening right now.
The lesson of the Holocaust was never simply to despise Nazis. It was to recognize the machinery of hatred before the destination becomes obvious.
 • Nachum Kaplan נַחוּם
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