(RNS) — The New York Times columnist had a paradoxical, and even playful, response to antisemitism that might surprise you.

Should Jewish philanthropy focus more on helping needy Jewish people? Jack Wertheimer, a history professor at the Jewish Theological Seminary, raises this question in an opinion article in Commentary ...

Earlier this week, Rabbi Barry Schwartz wrote about needing more Jewish debate. His blog posts are being featured this week on The Arty Semite courtesy of the Jewish Book Council and My Jewish ...

Over the past several weeks, Iranian American Jews have watched a historic uprising unfold in Iran. For many in the diaspora, ...

Rabbi Barry Schwartz is director of The Jewish Publication Society in Philadelphia and rabbi of Congregation Adas Emuno in Leonia, N.J. He is the author of “Judaism’s Great Debates” (Behrman House, ...

About 1 in 5 people in Spain and Portugal today may indeed be of “converso” origin: descendants of Jews or Muslims who converted to Catholicism, often under threat of death or expulsion. Regardless of ...

Israelis needed them to build their houses, to plant and harvest their fields, to care for their elderly. Demand peaked when the security situation deteriorated with the beginning of the second ...

Rabbi Jay Michaelson’s recent essay in the Forward on Judaism and the war in Gaza is thoughtful and engaging, but it falls into the trap of oversimplification. His approach is to frame Jewish opinion ...

Andrew Cuomo interjected during Wednesday night’s final mayoral debate when anti-Israel front-runner Zohran Mamdani tried to reassure Jewish New Yorkers that he would also represent them, if elected.

It goes without saying that the University of Chicago has something of a reputation in the academic world for doing things, well, a bit differently than other schools. The University experience begins ...

Cataloguing Jews and Jewish institutions for political purposes is not neutral.The post Mapping Jews echoes history’s darkest hours appeared first on JNS.org.

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